OOS 33-3: Ecosystem services in peopled landscapes: imitating the forest through the trees

Authors

Cheryl Palm, Columbia University
Markus Walsh, Wold Agroforestry Center
Alex Awiti, Aga Khan UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Department

East African Institute

Abstract

In general, as the demand for landscape services increases in response to increasing population pressure, there is a decline in many of the regulating and supporting ecosystem services. Degraded ecosystems generally do not produce the necessary goods and services to support human populations. In classic Bosrupian theory people will eventually invest in their land to rehabilitate its productive capacity. While there is considerable knowledge about rehabilitating the productive capacity of degraded lands, far less known about rehabilitating the regulating and supporting ecosystem services.

Comments

This work was published before the author joined Aga Khan University.

Publication (Name of Journal)

ESA/SER Joint Meeting

Recommended Citation

Palm, C., Walsh, M., Awiti, A. (2007). OOS 33-3: Ecosystem services in peopled landscapes: imitating the forest through the trees. ESA/SER Joint Meeting.
Available at: https://ecommons.aku.edu/eastafrica_eai/16