This programme seeks ways to conserve, restore and manage ecosystem services with local communities. Its objectives are:

• To unravel ecological processes which deliver important ecosystem services and to quantify these ecosystem services using multidisciplinary approaches.
• To demonstrate and develop research tools for decision support in the management of natural systems with specific focus on scenario building for impacts of climate change and tradeoffs between interventions.
• To use this research to identify strategies and inform and influence policy which will: - Reduce the vulnerabilities of both stakeholders and the ecosystems on which they depend to natural disasters and climate change. - Help restore, and sustainably manage ecosystem services through community action in habitat restoration, protection and management.