About the Partnership

The National Ecosystem Services Partnership (NESP) engages both public and private individuals and organizations to enhance collaboration within the ecosystem services community and to strengthen coordination of policy and market implementation and research at the national level.

This partnership developed with early support from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and with donations of expertise and time from a number of other public and private institutions. As of December 2010 the partnership is housed at Duke University’s Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions. The partnership has been involved in the development of a web portal by the Institute for Natural Resources at Oregon State University, and has been connected to the dialogue of the USDA-led Community of Practice, annual Ecosystem Service Markets meetings supported by the World Resources Institute and the American Forest Foundation, and the Community on Ecosystem Services (ACES), which conducts biennial conferences.

The partnership is led by Lydia Olander, Director of the Ecosystem Services Program at the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions at Duke University, and the guidance of diverse steering group.

• Nicole Balloffet, U.S. Forest Service, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
• Jim Boyd, Resources for the Future
• Jessica Fox, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)
• Todd Gartner or John Talberth, World Resources Institute (WRI)
• Jenee Kresge, National Association of Regional Councils (NARC)
• Pat Noonan, The Conservation Fund
• Linwood Pendleton, Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, Duke University & National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
  
• Mary Ruckelshaus, The Natural Capital Project, Stanford University
• Paul Sandifer, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
• Carl Shapiro and Frank Casey, United States Geological Survey (USGS)
• Steve Swallow, University of Connecticut
• Gary Tabor, Center for Large Landscape Conservation
  
• Dean Urban, Duke University
• Sara Vickerman, Defenders of Wildlife

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