RT Report
T1 Ecosystem and Human Well-Being: A Framework for Assessment
A1 Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, 
A2 Alcamo, Joseph
A2 Ash, Neville
A2 Butler, Colin
A2 Callicott, J. Baird
A2 Capistrano, Doris
A2 Castilla, Juan Carlos
A2 Chambers, Robert
A2 Chopra, Kanchan
A2 Cropper, Angela
A2 Daily, Gretchen
A2 Dasgupta, Partha
A2 de Groot, Rudolf
A2 Dietz, Thomas
A2 Duraiappah, Anantha Kumar
A2 Gadgil, Madhav
A2 Hamilton, Kirk
A2 Hassan, Rashid
A2 Lambin, Eric
A2 Lebel, Louis
A2 Leemans, Rik
A2 Malingreau, Jean-Paul
A2 May, Robert
A2 McCalla, Alex
A2 McMichael, Anthony
A2 Moldan, Bedrich
A2 Mooney, Harold
A2 Naeem, Shahid
A2 Nelson, Gerald
A2 Niu, Wen-Yuan
A2 Noble, Ian
A2 Ouyang, Zhiyun
A2 Pagiola, Stefano
A2 Pauly, Daniel
A2 Percy, Steven
A2 Pingali, Prabhu
A2 Prescott-Allen, Robert
A2 Reid, Walter
A2 Ricketts, Taylor
A2 Samper, Cristián
A2 Scholes, Robert
A2 Simons, Henk
A2 Toth, Ferenc
A2 Turpie, Jane
A2 Watson, Robert
A2 Wilbanks, Thomas
A2 Williams, Meryl
A2 Wood, Stanley
A2 Zhao, Shidong
A2 Zurek, Monika
K1 ecosystem
K1 ecosystem analysis
K1 ecosystem degradation
K1 ecosystem research
K1 environmental assessment
K1 biodiversity
K1 environmental change
K1 human health
K1 human population
K1 ecosystem service
K1 valued ecosystem component
K1 environmental economy issue
K1 business
K1 business activity
K1 consumption
K1 consumption pattern
K1 production policy
PB World Resources Institute (WRI)
SN 1-55963-402-2
SN 1-55963-403-0
YR 2003
FD 2003
LK https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/8768
UL https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/8768
NO Ecosystems and Human Well-being: A Framework for Assessment is the first product of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA), a four-year international work program designed to meet the needs of decision-makers for scientific information on the links between ecosystem change and human well-being. It was launched by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan in June 2001, and the principal assessment reports will be released in 2005. The MA focuses on how changes in ecosystem services have affected human well-being, how ecosystem changes may affect people in future decades, and what types of responses can be adopted at local, national, or global scales to improve ecosystem management and thereby contribute to human well-being and poverty alleviation. Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Convention to Combat Desertification, the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, and the Convention on Migratory Species have asked the MA to provide scientific information to assist in the implementation of these treaties. The MA will also address the needs of other stakeholders, including the private sector, civil society, and indigenous peoples organizations. The MA is closely coordinated with other international assessments that focus in greater depth on particular sectors or drivers of change, such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the Global International Waters Assessment. Scientific evaluations such as these help underpin various regular annual and biennial international reporting mechanisms, such as the Global Environmental Outlook, the World Resources Report, the Human Development Report, and the World Development Report.
DS UN Environment Document Repository
RD Sep 20, 2026