Topic: ecosystem services

Raising awareness of threats to coral reefs and providing information and tools to manage coastal habitats more effectively.

Nature's Benefits in Kenya: An Atlas of Ecosystems and Human Well-Being

This report provides a new approach to integrating spatial data on poverty and ecosystems in Kenya. It is endorsed by five Permanent Secretaries in Kenya and with a Foreword by Wangari Maathai (recipient of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize).

Explores six challenges – water scarcity, climate change, habitat change, biodiversity loss and invasive species, overexploitation of oceans, and nutrient overloading – and discusses their implications for business and examples of corporate responses.

World Resources 2005 -- The Wealth of the Poor: Managing Ecosystems to Fight Poverty

Ecosystems are—or can be—the wealth of the poor. For many of the 1.1 billion people living in severe poverty, nature has always been a daily lifeline—an asset for those with few other material assets.