Ecosystem Services and Global Trade of Natural Resources

14  Landscape Labeling: Combining Certification with Ecosystem Service Conservation at Landscape Scales¹

Jaboury Ghazoul

Introduction

The concept of ecosystems as providers of essential goods and services for the support of human well-being has become central to new perspectives about how ecosystems are valued and managed. These perspectives underlie justification for conservation in that ecosystem conservation is, so it is argued, necessary for continued delivery of ecosystem services, the multiple benefits that human societies and individuals receive from environment functions. Tropical landscape mosaics are sources of many goods and ecosystem services that society benefits from. A tropical landscape mosaic can be variously defined, but basically ...