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In a Design Journal article (Wood, 1990) I argued that "the entrepreneur; fixer, trouble shooter and exploiter should give way to the more socially responsible entredonneur; the giver, not the taker." One way in which we use the term is in creating a continuum that reconciles the 'entrepreneur' with the 'entredonneur' (see fig. x). This device enables us to chart a gradient of values with 'taking' at one end, and 'giving' at the other.

The Millennium Assessment focuses on how humans have altered ecosystems, and how changes in ecosystem services have affected human well-being, how ecosystem changes may affect people in future decades, and what types of responses can be adopted at local, national, or global scales to improve ecosystem management and thereby contribute to human well-being and poverty alleviation.