Climate change translates into change for the way gov-
ernments, companies, and citizens conduct their daily
business. If society begins to adapt to change without an
overarching framework to decide which changes are
most damaging and what can be tolerated, resources
could be squandered and the impacts of climate change
exacerbated. A dynamic national tally of natural capital
and assets, including associated ecosystem services,
promises to serve as an ideal framework to design
national, regional, individual, and private-sector
responses to climate change. Unfortunately, the scien-
tific and data-oriented foundation to report trends in
ecosystem service provision and value is currently lack-
ing (PCAST 2011). Therefore, now is the time for the
nation to build a monitoring and reporting system for
ecosystem services. Readers of this journal and scientists
from many other disciplines will need to be the primary
authors of such a system. These stakeholders must con-
duct the relevant analyses, translate scientific results in
ways that are useful to public and private managers, and
help draft the architecture of a real-time information
database if climate-change adaptation in the US is to be
welfare-enhancing and efficient
Climate change translates into change for the way gov-ernments, companies, and citizens conduct their dailybusiness. If society begins to adapt to change without anoverarching framework to decide which changes aremost damaging and what can be tolerated, resourcescould be squandered and the impacts of climate changeexacerbated. A dynamic national tally of natural capitaland assets, including associated ecosystem services,promises to serve as an ideal framework to designnational, regional, individual, and private-sectorresponses to climate change. Unfortunately, the scien-tific and data-oriented foundation to report trends inecosystem service provision and value is currently lack-ing (PCAST 2011). Therefore, now is the time for thenation to build a monitoring and reporting system forecosystem services. Readers of this journal and scientistsfrom many other disciplines will need to be the primaryauthors of such a system. These stakeholders must con-duct the relevant analyses, translate scientific results inways that are useful to public and private managers, andhelp draft the architecture of a real-time informationdatabase if climate-change adaptation in the US is to bewelfare-enhancing and efficient
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