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Capitalizing on nature : ecosystems as natural assets /
"The basic unit of nature - the ecosystem - is a special form of wealth, which we can think of as a stock of natural capital. However, perhaps because this capital is free, we have tended to view it as limitless, abundant and always available for our use, exploitation and conversion. Capitalizi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "The basic unit of nature - the ecosystem - is a special form of wealth, which we can think of as a stock of natural capital. However, perhaps because this capital is free, we have tended to view it as limitless, abundant and always available for our use, exploitation and conversion. Capitalizing on Nature shows how modeling ecosystems as natural capital can help us to analyze the economic behavior that has led to the overuse of so much ecological wealth. It explains how this concept of ecosystem as natural capital sheds light on a number of important issues, including landscape conversion, ecological restoration, ecosystem resilience and collapse, spatial benefits and payments for ecosystem services. The book concludes by focusing on major policy challenges that need to be overcome in order to avert the worsening problem of ecological scarcity and how we can fund novel financing mechanisms for global conservation"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 321 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1139141910 9781139141918 9781139145237 1139145231 9781139014922 1139014927 9781139137904 1139137905 128331519X 9781283315197 1139140183 9781139140188 1107227690 9781107227699 9786613315199 6613315192 1139139452 9781139139458 1139141031 9781139141031 |