Ecosystem services (ES): More than just a vogue term?

Abstract

During the 1990s, with the increasing demands of humankind upon the limited resources of the earth, and in view of the growing burdens upon the balance of nature, manifested, too, in biodiversity loss and in the problem complex of energy and the climate, the concept of ecosystem services (ES) entered into the international environmental discussion (e. g. de Groot 1992; Daily 1997; Costanza et al. 1997).