Anthropogenic Drivers of Ecosystem Change: an Overview

Anthropogenic Drivers of Ecosystem Change: an Overview

This paper provides an overview of what the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) calls "indirect and direct drivers" of change in ecosystem services at a global level. The MA definition of a driver is any natural or human-induced factor that directly or indirectly causes a change in an eco...

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Main Authors: Gerald C. Nelson, Elena Bennett, Asmeret A. Berhe, Kenneth Cassman, Ruth DeFries, Thomas Dietz, Achim Dobermann, Andrew Dobson, Anthony Janetos, Marc Levy, Diana Marco, Nebojsa Nakicenovic, Brian O'Neill, Richard Norgaard, Gerhard Petschel-Held, Dennis Ojima, Prabhu Pingali, Robert Watson, Monika Zurek
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Resilience Alliance 2006-12-01
Series:Ecology and Society
Subjects:
ecosystem services
drivers of change
direct drivers
indirect drivers
demographic drivers
economic drivers
sociopolitical drivers
cultural and religious drivers
scientific and technological drivers
physical and biological drivers
climate change
plant nutrient use
land conversion
diseases
invasive species
Online Access:http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol11/iss2/art29/

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