Progress and perspectives of ecosystem services management

Ecosystems provide human multiple types of ecosystem services in the aspects of natural resources and living environment,and all these services are crucial foundation of sustainable social and economic development.However,between the understanding of ecosystem services and practice of management,there exist great challenges which contain: quantifying ecosystem services,relationships among multiple services,multi-scale correlation of services,combination of ecosystem services and policy design.In response to these challenges,researches of ecosystem services management in recent years have focused on fields as follow: quantitative estimate of ecosystem services,relationship between ecosystem services and human well-being,trade-offs among multiple ecosystem services,conservation planning of ecosystem services and mechanisms of payments for ecosystem services.With the goal to promote ecosystem services management practices,we should: further strengthen the theoretical research about provision of ecosystem services,develop more methods to display results of services research,carry out more interdisciplinary studies with sociology,economics,demography,search for practicable and reasonable approach to incorporating ecosystem services into decision-making.