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Item Details
Title:
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NATURAL CAPITAL
THEORY AND PRACTICE OF MAPPING ECOSYSTEM SERVICES |
By: |
Peter M. Kareiva (Editor), Heather Tallis (Editor), Taylor H. Ricketts (Editor) |
Format: |
Hardback |

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£140.00 |
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ISBN 10: |
0199588996 |
ISBN 13: |
9780199588992 |
Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
Pub. date: |
7 April, 2011 |
Pages: |
392 |
Description: |
The editors have assembled the world's leading scientists in the fields of conservation, policy analysis, and resource economics to provide the most intensive and best technical analyses of ecosystem services to date. |
Synopsis: |
In 2005, The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) provided the first global assessment of the world's ecosystems and ecosystem services. It concluded that recent trends in ecosystem change threatened human wellbeing due to declining ecosystem services. This bleak prophecy has galvanized conservation organizations, ecologists, and economists to work toward rigorous valuations of ecosystem services at a spatial scale and with a resolution that can inform public policy. The editors have assembled the world's leading scientists in the fields of conservation, policy analysis, and resource economics to provide the most intensive and best technical analyses of ecosystem services to date. A key idea that guides the science is that the modelling and valuation approaches being developed should use data that are readily available around the world. In addition, the book documents a toolbox of ecosystem service mapping, modeling, and valuation models that both The Nature Conservancy and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) are beginning to apply around the world as they transform conservation from a biodiversity only to a people and ecosystem services agenda.The book addresses land, freshwater, and marine systems at a variety of spatial scales and includes discussion of how to treat both climate change and cultural values when examining tradeoffs among ecosystem services. |
Illustrations: |
Over 100 black and white illustrations, and an 8 page colour plate section |
Publication: |
UK |
Imprint: |
Oxford University Press |
Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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