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Ecosystem services : charting a path to sustainability : interdisciplinary research team summaries : conference, Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center, Irvine, California, November 10-13, 2011.

"Natural environments provide enormously valuable, but largely unappreciated, services that aid humans and other earthlings. It is becoming clear that these life-support systems are faltering and failing worldwide due to human actions that disrupt nature's ability to do its beneficial work...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores Corporativos: National Academies (U.S.). Keck Futures Initiative. Conference, National Academies (U.S.). Keck Futures Initiative. Ecosystem Services Steering Committee
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, [2012]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Conference summary
  • Team 1: How do ecosystem services affect infectious and chronic diseases?
  • Team 2: Identify what resources can be produced renewably or recovered by developing intense technologies that can be applied on a massive scale
  • Team 3: Develop social and technical capabilities to respond to abrupt changes in ecosystem services
  • Team 4: Design agricultural and acquacultural systems that provide food security while maintaining the full set of ecosystem services needed from landscapes and seascapes
  • Team 5: Design production systems for ecosystem services that improve human outcomes related to food and nutrition
  • Team 6: Develop appropriate methods to accurately value natural capital and ecosystem services
  • Team 7: Design a federal policy to maintain or improve natural capital and ecosystem services within the United States, including measuring and documenting the effectiveness of the policy
  • Team 8: Design a system for international trade that accounts for impacts on ecosystem services
  • Team 9: Develop a program that increases the American public's appreciatioin of the basic principles of ecosystem services.