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The focus of the MA is on ecosystem services (the benefits people obtain from ecosystems), how changes in ecosystem services have affected human well-being in the past, and what role these changes could play in the present as well as in the future. The MA is an assessment of responses that are available to improve ecosystem management and can thereby contribute to the various constituents of human well-being. The specific issues addressed have been defined through consultation with the MA users. Broadly, the MA applies an integrated systems’ approach to evaluate trade-offs involved in following alternate strategies and courses of action to use ecosystem services for enhancing human welfare. The overall. | ECOSYSTEMS AND HUMAN WELL-BEING ------- VOLUME 3 ---- POLICY RESPONSES Findings of the Responses Working Group Millennium Ecosystem Assessment About Island Press Island Press is the only nonprofit organization in the United States whose principal purpose is the publication of books on environmental issues and natural resource management. We provide solutions-oriented information to professionals public officials business and community leaders and concerned citizens who are shaping responses to environmental problems. In 2005 Island Press celebrates its twenty-first anniversary as the leading provider of timely and practical books that take a multidisciplinary approach to critical environmental concerns. Our growing list of titles reflects our commitment to bringing the best of an expanding body of literature to the environmental community throughout North America and the world. Support for Island Press is provided by the Agua Fund The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Ford Foundation The George Gund Foundation The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Kendeda Sustainability Fund of the Tides Foundation The Henry Luce Foundation The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation The Curtis and Edith Munson Foundation The New-Land Foundation The New York Community Trust Oak Foundation The Overbrook Foundation The David and Lucile Packard Foundation The Winslow Foundation and other generous donors. The opinions expressed in this book are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of these foundations. Ecosystems and Human Well-being Policy Responses Volume