The aim of this research project is to identify and quantify the value of ecosystem services provided by rural and urban habitats in Staffordshire. The report also provides an assessment of the specific services provided by the Country Parks owned and managed by Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent County Councils. The value of ecosystem services are assessed in three steps: in monetary terms (where available scientific evidence and data permit); through case study examples; and through qualitative assessment outlining the links between ecosystems and human wellbeing. A next step is to create ecosystem service supply and demand maps in collaboration with stakeholders to promote understanding and uptake of decisions. A Staffordshire Green Infrastructure Strategy will be created based on the Ecosystem Approach.
Staffordshire County Council
UKNEA
Which ecosystem services were focused on?:
- Aesthetic/inspiration
- Education
- Health and well-being
- Recreation/tourism
- Spiritual/religious
- Crops, livestock, fish
- Drinking water
- Energy
- Fibre
- Food
- Trees, standing vegetation, peat
- Water supply
- Wild species
- Carbon sequestration & storage
- Climate regulation
- Detoxification and purification in air, soils and water
- Disease and pest regulation
- Erosion control
- Flood control
- Hazard regulation
- Noise regulation
- Pollination
- Pollution
Wood pasture/parkland