Developing an ecosystem services framework for SEQ

SEQ Catchments and the University of the Sunshine Coast have collaborated to develop a framework for organisations and individuals to more easily integrate the idea of ecosystem services into everyday operations.

The South East Queensland Ecosystem Services Framework aims to provide the tools to enable government, industry, business, researchers, non-government organisations and land managers to apply the concept of ecosystem services in their planning and management practices.

The group have produced a research paper, The Development of an Ecosystem Services Framework for South East Queensland, which describes the four vital components of the ecosystem services framework and related matrices and maps.

The research paper explains the framework and the processes used to develop the matrices and maps, which identify and illustrate the links between the framework’s four key components—ecosystems, ecosystem functions, ecosystem services and community wellbeing. These matrices and maps serve to identify areas where most ecosystem services are generated.

Read The Development of an Ecosystem Services Framework for South East Queensland in full.

Source
Maynard S, James D & Davidson A 2010, The Development of an Ecosystem Services Framework for South East Queensland, Springer Science+Business Media.