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Ecological forecasts: an emerging imperative
- Source :
- Science (New York, N.Y.). 293(5530)
- Publication Year :
- 2001
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Abstract
- Planning and decision-making can be improved by access to reliable forecasts of ecosystem state, ecosystem services, and natural capital. Availability of new data sets, together with progress in computation and statistics, will increase our ability to forecast ecosystem change. An agenda that would lead toward a capacity to produce, evaluate, and communicate forecasts of critical ecosystem services requires a process that engages scientists and decision-makers. Interdisciplinary linkages are necessary because of the climate and societal controls on ecosystems, the feedbacks involving social change, and the decision-making relevance of forecasts.
- Subjects :
- Process (engineering)
Epidemiology
Decision Making
Ecosystem services
Disease Outbreaks
Animals
Humans
Ecosystem
Relevance (information retrieval)
Policy Making
Population Growth
Ecosystem health
Stochastic Processes
Multidisciplinary
Ecology
business.industry
Environmental resource management
Social change
Agriculture
Ecosystem valuation
ComputingMilieux_GENERAL
Natural capital
business
Forecasting
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00368075
- Volume :
- 293
- Issue :
- 5530
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Science (New York, N.Y.)
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....1ff5a21ace29a913709a5cd1e28e6332