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Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
(MA)
"The MA is an international work
program designed to meet the needs of decision makers and
the public for scientific information concerning the consequences
of ecosystem change for human well-being and options for responding
to those changes.
The MA was launched by U.N. Secretary-General
Kofi Annan in June 2001 and it will help to meet assessment
needs of the Convention on Biological Diversity, Convention
to Combat Desertification, the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands,
and the Convention on Migratory Species, as well as needs
of other users in the private sector and civil society.
If the MA proves to be useful to its
stakeholders, it is anticipated that an assessment process
modeled on the MA will be repeated every 5–10 years and
that ecosystem assessments will be regularly conducted at
national or sub-national scales."
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popularized version by GreenFacts of the MA Synthesis Report.
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