Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Synthesis Reports

Published: July 9, 2008, 5:43 pm

Updated: September 8, 2011, 5:34 am

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Environmental Monitoring (main) Environmental Assessment (main) Ecology (main) International Environmental Issues (main)

The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) assessed the consequences of ecosystem change for human well-being. From 2001 to 2005, the MA involved the work of more than 1,360 experts worldwide. Their findings provide a state-of-the-art scientific appraisal of the condition and trends in the world’s ecosystems and the services they provide, as well as the scientific basis for action to conserve and use them sustainably. The first set of assessment reports consists of an overall synthesis and 5 others that interpret the MA findings for specific audiences. The MA Synthesis reports are published by the MA and World Resources Institute, except where noted.

	Ecosystems and Human Well-being: Synthesis This report presents a synthesis and integration of the findings of the four MA Working Groups along with more detailed findings for selected ecosystem services concerning condition and trends and scenarios, and response options.
	Ecosystems and Human Well-Being: Biodiversity Synthesis Prepared for the CBD, this report provides an overview of biodiversity across the assessment, organized around a set of 6 questions which were initially posed by the CBD to the MA.
	Ecosystems and Human Well-being: Desertification Synthesis This report integrates findings of the MA related to current state and future trends of desertification and its impacts on ecosystems and human well-being, and is organized around a set of key information needs identified by the CCD.
	Ecosystems and Human Well-being: Opportunities and Challenges for Business and Industry This report synthesizes the key messages of the MA and discusses the implications of MA findings for the business community.
	Ecosystems and Human Well-being: Wetlands and Water This report was written as a guide for the parties to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, on the MA findings concerning inland, coastal, and near-shore marine wetlands.

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Institute, W. (2011). Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Synthesis Reports. Retrieved from http://editors.eol.org/eoearth/wiki/Millennium_Ecosystem_Assessment_Synthesis_Reports