This folder provides access to the most relevant other databases on the topics of ecosystem valuation, financing and cost-benefit analysis.

See also under the folder "Links" for an overview of websites related to the topics of interest to this Network which contain many data bases and other useful sources of information.
In case you know of a database, or link, that is not on this list, please let us know by email (to mishka.stuip@wur.nl) or by adding it yourself (see below).

• Biodiversity Economics Library
• CIFOR Multi Disciplinary Landscape Assessment Databases. Data for MLA in Indonesia, Cameroon, Bolivia and mozambique. The MLA set of methods was developed in Malinau, Kalimantan, through workshops, a series of pre-trials, a full-scale pilot study in two communities and finally application in five additional communities. It has been an explicitly multidisciplinary and collaborative process to define and collect the most useful or decisive information with regard to environmental impacts and local people's perspectives.
• Earth Trends: The Environmental Information Portal (World Resources Institute)
• Ecoinformatics Collaboratory
• Ecosystem Marketplace seeks to become the world's leading source of information on markets and payment schemes for ecosystem services; services such as water quality, carbon sequestration and biodiversity.
• Ecosystem Services Database (ESD): An important database developed by the University of Vermont, in collaboration with the Environmental Systems Analysis Group and with financial support of the US National Science Foundation. The NV&F-Network aims to contribute to the further development of this database by enabling its members to both use data from ESD as well as adding new data to it (see http://www.esd.uvm.edu/ for further information).
• Environmental Valuation Database (EnValue)
• Environmental Valuation Reference Inventory (EVRI)
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
• IUCN Books online service
• National Ocean Economics Project (NOEP)
• Science Environment for Ecological Knowledge (SEEK) 

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