Functioning ecosystems provide the basis for security, basic material needs, health, social interaction and individual liberty. This is how the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment 2005 described it, ...
Provision of clean water and air; Pollination of crops; Mitigation of environmental hazards; Pest and disease control; Carbon sequestration. Accounting for the way in which ecosystems provide economic ...
"March 2005"--P [4] of cover. "[This publication] is not intended as a comprehensive summary of the findings of the MA, but rather as an interpretation of the key messages to emerge from it."--P. [1].