Autoria: PRADO, R. B.; FIDALGO, E. C. C.; FERREIRA, J. N.; CAMPANHA, M. M.; PARRON-VARGAS, L. M.; MATTOS, L. M. de; PEDREIRA, B. C. C. G.; MONTEIRO, J. M. G.; TURETTA, A. P. D.; MARTINS, A. L. S.; DONAGEMMA, G. K.; COUTINHO, H. L. C.

Resumo: Human pressures have caused degradation of natural resources and reduction of biodiversity on theplanetwith serious consequences to humanity, because of the increasing demands for water, fibers,food, energy and raw material. It is necessary to reconcile economic, social and environmentalcomponents in a scenario of climate change. Therefore, concerns about this issue have increased inall sectors of society. Many data on natural resources in the Brazilian biomes were obtained by re-search, education, government and non-government institutions in recent decades, but without aconceptual and methodological focus turned to ecosystem services. Research aiming at understand-ing ecosystem and environmental services has increased worldwide since the Millennium Ecosys-tem Assessment. Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa) has also followed thistrend and in 2014 approved a network of projects entitled Environmental Services in Rural Land-scape Arrangement with over 60 related projects.The purpose of this paper is to present the statusof research on ecosystem and environmental services related to agriculture in Brazil developed byEmbrapa, and to identify how the expected results may contribute to the expansion of environmen-tal services in rural Brazil.

Ano de publicação: 2015

Tipo de publicação: Artigo em anais e proceedings

Unidade: Embrapa Amazônia Oriental

Palavras-chave: Biodiversidade, Degradação, Ecossistema, Ferramentas de apoio à decisão, Herramienta de apoyo en la decision, Pesquisa agrícola, Preservação, Recurso natural, Red de investigación, Rede de pesquisa, Research network, Servicio ecosistémico, Serviço ambiental, Serviços ecossistêmicos, Support decision tools, Tomada de Decisão, ecosystem services