BIOECON

Scientific partners

ecoservices ECOSERVICES Group
Arizona State University

The group investigates the causes and consequences of change in ecosystem services – the biophysical functions that provide people with both tangible and intangible benefits. Currently, it has five main research foci: (a) ecosystem service flows, (b) invasive pests and pathogens; (c) urban infrastructures; (d) commercial and recreational fisheries; (e) biodiversity change. The group brings an interdisciplinary approach to these areas, its expertise spanning economics, ecology, environmental science, mathematics and geography.

Contacts: prof. Charles Perrings

CURRENT PROJECTS Start Date End Date URL
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Training Network (BESTNet) 2007 2012 http://ecoservices.asu.edu/bestnet/index.html
Sustainable Infrastructure for Water and Energy Supply (SINEWS) 2008 2012 http://ecoservices.asu.edu/urbanecoservices/sinews.html
Synthesizing and Predicting Infectious Diseases while accounting for Endogenous Risk (SPIDER) 2009 2011 http://ecoservices.asu.edu/Diseaserisks/DRindex.html
Sustainable use of ecosystem services: local to global 2010 2015 http://ecoservices.asu.edu/TRIF/ecosystem_services.html