Final Ecosystem Goods and Services Classification System
The Final Ecosystem Goods and Services Classification System (FEGS-CS) provides a foundation for measuring, quantifying, mapping, modeling, and valuing ecosystem services.
Appropriately defining and classifying ecosystem services—benefits supplied by nature—to minimize double-counting and to relate them directly to users is a fundamental challenge. The Final Ecosystem Goods and Services Classification System (FEGS-CS) (Landers and Nahlik, 2013) provides a foundation for measuring, quantifying, mapping, modeling, and valuing ecosystem services.
The system can be:
- applied at multiple special scales,
- promotes interdisciplinary communication about the nature of ecosystem services, and
- facilitates development of measures to link ecosystem goods and services to human well-being.