Revaluing Ecosystems: Pathways For Scaling up the Inclusion of Ecosystem Value in Decision Making

The document identifies six pathways to scale up the inclusion of ecosystem values in decision-making: mainstreaming values in national economic accounts, improving ecosystem assessments, investing in natural infrastructure, reducing risk in the food and beverage sector, using financial tools like bonds for agricultural landscapes, and using communication tools for community resilience. It argues that current efforts to value ecosystem services—such as pollination and climate regulation—are insufficient to stop ecosystem degradation because these assets are often managed for short-term gain.

• The document identifies six specific pathways to integrate ecosystem values into decision-making: incorporating values into national economic accounts, enhancing the pragmatism of ecosystem assessments, promoting investment in natural infrastructure, mitigating risks within the food and beverage sector, employing financial instruments like bonds for agricultural ecosystem restoration, and utilizing communication tools to build community resilience following disasters.
• Ecosystem services, including water and climate regulation and pollution filtering, are frequently undervalued and managed for short-term profit, leading to degradation rates that current valuation efforts are not moving fast enough to stop.

APA

World Resources Institute (n.d.). Revaluing Ecosystems: Pathways For Scaling up the Inclusion of Ecosystem Value in Decision Making. https://www.wri.org/research/revaluing-ecosystems

Chicago

World Resources Institute. Revaluing Ecosystems: Pathways For Scaling up the Inclusion of Ecosystem Value in Decision Making. n.d. https://www.wri.org/research/revaluing-ecosystems.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{worldresourcesinstitutendrevaluing, author = {{World Resources Institute}}, title = {{Revaluing Ecosystems: Pathways For Scaling up the Inclusion of Ecosystem Value in Decision Making}}, institution = {World Resources Institute}, url = {https://www.wri.org/research/revaluing-ecosystems}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }