Challenge
Ecosystem services are used to meet the demands of urban development, providing guidelines to ensure that a site retains its natural ecosystem when touched by human development.
However, until the Ester application, the tools available for recording and mapping ecosystem services were not collaborative, with individual measurements, meaning there was no set standard to base an analysis on. During the work and after the analysis was finalised, the report was stored locally, which limited the knowledge sharing and best practices.
