Biodiversity and ecosystem services: The Nature Index for Norway

Iulie Aslaksen, Signe Nybø, Erik Framstad, Per Arild Garnåsjordet and Olav Skarpaas

Ecosystem Services, 2015, vol. 12, issue C, 108-116

Abstract: Valuation of ecosystem services has been advocated as a tool for communicating the importance of nature and biodiversity to policy makers. The complexity of the relationships between ecosystem functions and the biodiversity that supports them challenges conceptualization of ecosystem services and calls for comprehensive ecological frameworks as basis for valuation and policy. In this article, we discuss relationships between biodiversity and ecosystem services in the context of the Nature Index for Norway, recently developed as a biodiversity measurement framework. We suggest supplementing the Nature Index by complementary indicators for ecosystem services, in order to consider how the ecosystem services approach as a policy tool can be enhanced by taking into account an ecological framework for biodiversity measurement.

Keywords: Biodiversity measurement; Biodiversity indicators; Biodiversity policy; Ecosystem services; Nature Index; Valuation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoser.2014.11.002

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