Ecosystem services as a practicable concept for natural resource management: some lessons from Australia

摘要: The ecosystem services (ES) concept initially gathered momentum amongst the Australian scientific community in late 1990s. This article seeks to investigate if earlier ES research efforts and findings have been adopted utilised by resource managers, highlighting factors that may enabled or prevented this adoption. Combining a literature review, interviews observations from regional planning, we offer snapshot of managers' experiences engaging with concept. Although based on small pilot, our results suggest thinking about biodiversity ecosystems as providers economic value has broadly found its way into natural management (NRM) practice, but ‘language’ is not necessarily new, clear practicable. Interviewees mentioned lack an ‘ES toolbox’, combined national policy drivers, major barrier their broader adoption For ES...