Évaluation des services rendus par les écosystèmes en France

Abstract

This article introduces a method for the assessment of ecosystem services on the French territory. Following the U.N.-initiated Millennium Ecosystem Assessment framework, the implementation of an ecosystem assessment on a specific territory led to the conception of new tools for the analysis and the measurement of interactions between nature and human activities at different territorial scales, through the mapping of ecosystems, an identification of ecosystem services on the French territory and a methodology for their quantification.

Keywords

• territory
• biodiversity
• natural resources
• ecosystems
• ecosystem services
• wellbeing