ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT
Resources for the Future research addresses the challenges of sensibly managing forest, fishery, water, and other natural resources, integrating economic and ecological information to evaluate alternative ecosystem management and conservation strategies in the United States and around the world. In the 1960’s, groundbreaking work at RFF created the analytical framework for thinking about natural and biological resources as more than just raw materials to be extracted for production.
Today, RFF scholars are taking on the challenge of how to properly measure, value, and protect these other benefits. Recent efforts have concentrated on finding economically meaningful definitions of ecosystem services; developing and testing techniques for their valuation using surveys; and providing research-driven recommendations to improve the performance of programs that provide payments for ecosystem services