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Nile Basin Wetlands Ecosystem Services Assessment Report

Nile Basin Initiative Secretariat

Project
Biodiversity conservation and utilization of ecosystems in the Nile Basin Wetlands
Theme
Wetlands
Goals
Environment
Programs
Basin-wide Program
Ownerships
Nile Basin Initiative

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Authors
Georg Petersen. Paul Meulenbroek, Sigrid Scheikl, Rafaela Schinegger, Maria Bräuner
Date Of Publication
Accessibility status
Open Access
Language
English
Abstract

The ecosystem services (ES) assessment is key to understand the benefits that wetlands provide. Even though it is a commonly used concept and powerful tool to socialize conservation and natural resources management, their evaluation so far is biased towards evaluating the ones that are easy to measure or the most “popular”. Besides this, different classification systems and valuation methods exist.

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