POSSIBILITIES OF USING THE CONCEPT OF ECOSYSTEM SERVICES AT THE REGIONAL LEVEL IN EXPERTS’ OPINIONS

Abstract

In the European Union countries, including Poland, work is being conducted on the implementation of the ecosystem services (ES) approach in policy and decision-making. This process is relatively advanced at the level of individual member states; however, it still constitutes a big challenge on the sub-national level. The determination of reasons for such a status quo and searching for solutions
were main subjects of one of the workshops at the ECOSERV 2016 symposium that was held in Poznań in 2016. 30 persons representing the most important Polish authorities and institutions dealing with environmental management participated in the workshop. The analysis performed made it possible to identify a set of conditions, which, according to the experts, are the most important for the development of the ES approach in the regional scale.