Integrated Ecosystem Services Framework

This report was designed to lay the foundation for a future ecosystem service valuation strategy for use within the SNEP region. This report describes the contract work to establish the Integrated Ecosystem Services Framework (IESF), which can help inform decision-making on:

• Appropriate indicators and metrics for assessing environmental condition and program impact.
• Developing commonality within and between monitoring approaches.
• Framing management/restoration/protection outcomes and other human activities using ecosystem services and valuation approaches.
• The format and content of periodic "State of the SNEP region" reports.

Simultaneous work on several separate tasks, over a 12-month contract, contribute to the IESF's development. This report synthesizes the results of these tasks and culminates with an example-driven demonstration of how SNEP can use — or "operationalize" — the IESF to prioritize indicators and metrics of ecosystem function and health in the region.

• Final Report: The groundwork for common monitoring approaches in the SNEP region (pdf) (1.57 MB, September 30, 2020)
• IESF Final Report Appendix (pdf) (6.92 MB)