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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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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.