Welcome to the ECOSYSTEM SERVICES Web site, being developed under the supervision of the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics, with funding from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.

An exciting feature of this site is a model that simulates ecosystem services in a dynamic way over space and time. You can focus it on the place you live or an area of special interest. But the major theme in ecosystem services is how things are linked together.

Our science has been taking things apart insightfully for several hundred years, but here we demonstrate how these many sciences work together in the world in which we live. You can blaze your own trail through this website with whatever balance of analysis (disassembly) and synthesis (reassembly) that serves you. The ecosystem services theme will encourage you to experiment with the wealth of natural capital, human capital, financial capital, and social capital in imagining a sustainable future for generations to come.

HOW TO USE THIS WEB SITE
Text throughout this site will be foot-noted and cross-referenced with highlighted hyperlinks. You will be able to backtrack by referring to the history position of your browser.