Ecosystem Services Seminar Series

The CSREES Ecological Goods and Services Working Group focuses on the stewardship of healthy working land ecosystems and benefits to human health and livelihood.  In 2007, the Working Group sponsored a seminar series highlighting ecosystem services.  The seminar included the following presentations:

• Role of Agriculture
  Ann Sorenson, American Farmland Trust
  
• Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: Implications for Governments, Business and Society
  Janet Ranganathan, World Resources Institute
  
• Defining, Valuing, and Compensating Landowners for Ecosystem Services
  Frank Casey and Timm Kroeger, Defenders of Wildlife
  
• Market-Based Conservation: USDA/ NRCS Activities
  Carl Lucero, USDA NRCS
  
• Water Quality Trading: An EPA Perspective
  Ginny Kibler, U.S. EPA

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Last Updated: 07/24/2007