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This report chapter explains that the importance of, the scarcity of, and the wide range of benefits from ecosystem services must be communicated to private and public decision-makers by means of laws, regulations, financial incentives and other policy instruments.
These in turn provide the motivation and framework for scoping the benefits of integrating ecosystem services into suitable policy instruments that govern the management of Arctic nature, or of the human activities affecting Arctic nature.
In order to be successful in an Arctic context, the approach needs to build on a range of different types of knowledge. Information derived from economic valuation (whether market or non-market) is but one source of knowledge. Accounting for the importance of biodiversity and ecosystem services to the Arctic economy and society equally requires information derived from ethnographic and other social-scientific methods and from ecosystem sciences, and on Traditional Knowledge sources.
Other publication / Wetlands provide critical ecosystem benefits. This study inventories Arctic wetlands and reviews current knowledge on these unique environments.
Media coverage / SEI's Somya Joshi speaks to CNBC about the balance between innovation, AI and sustainable resource management.
Other publication / This report presents the findings of a comparative study on climate change adaptation in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden.
