Abstract
This research first presents an Ecosystem Services Use (ESU) framework for connecting industrial environmental interventions and ecosystem services. Taking the specific case of forests, it quantifies these linkages, before applying input-output analysis to estimate the total embodied ESU values across 32 Japanese industry sectors. Forest regulating services use outweighs provisioning use in all sectors except the ' pulp, papre and wooden products ' sector. Analysis also shows high direct and embodied service use in the primary and energy related sectors. The ESU suggests that assessment of the nature of interactions (i.e. negative, neutral, or positive) is essential for ecosystems related decisions in industry.
