Training on the TESSA toolkit - Lake Piso Robertsport and Monrovia, Liberia 12-15 June, 2017

The presentation introduced the Cultural Ecosystem Services (CES) module focussing on the definition of the CES, the importance of assessing CES, types of cultural ecosystem benefits and examples of cultural ecosystem services. [...] The five main tasks of the cultural ecosystem services module were introduced and these included: Task 1: Identify and describe the cultural ecosystem services and benefits provided by the site Task 2: Map the location of the cultural ecosystem services and benefits where appropriate Task 3: Assess the cultural ecosystem benefits Task 4: Identify and evaluate how the most important cultura. [...] The presentation stressed that assessors for cultural ecosystem services needs to equip themselves with a good knowledge of cultural ecosystem services and their benefits, the key considerations for assessing cultural ecosystem services and benefits, the research techniques and factors that encourage sharing of knowledge and enable articulation of cultural ecosystem services and their benefits. [...] Measuring ecosystem services in Liberia and the way forward Summary of the services the Liberian participants are working on and barriers they face Participants were asked about the ecosystem services they are working on and major barriers they face in this work. [...] It was clear from the list that participants mixed ecosystems with ecosystem processes, ecosystem services and the benefits from ecosystem services As a result, the TESSA facilitators explained the basic ecosystem service concepts to the participants, and beyond this, how to concretely and structurally apply ecosystem service analysis.