Definition: Regulating services
System of Environmental-Economic Accounting
These result from the capacity of ecosystems to regulate climate, hydrologic and biochemical cycles, Earth surface processes and a variety of biological processes.
Source:
United Nations; European Union; Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO); Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD); The World Bank, "System of Environmental-Economic Accounting 2012: Experimental Ecosystem Accounting", 2014
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