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Building ESCMs - Forest Systems

Building ESCMs - Forest Systems

Though we provide many ecosystem services conceptual models (ESCMs) in our model collection, in some cases you might need to build a model from scratch, or adapt an existing general model to fit your particular context. These resources can help with that process:

Building Ecosystem Services Conceptual Models: An ESCM Primer

 

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Workshop Guide: Using Facilitation Techniques to Integrate Ecosystem Services into Coastal Management Decisions

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Using ESCMs

Once you have an ESCM built for your system, you may be wondering how to apply it. In addition to the Facilitation Guide focused on coastal systems above, some additional forest-related examples are documented as Use Cases.