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Achieving environmental security : ecosystem services and human welfare /
The world's ecosystems are at increasing risk of rapid degradation and collapse, as documented in recently published accounts by the United Nations Environment Programme. Many societies are either unaware of the key value that diversity of animals, plants and other life-forms play in the role o...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[Amsterdam] :
IOS Press,
2010.
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| Colección: | NATO science for peace and security series. Human and societal dynamics ;
69. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Title13;
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Contents
- Part I: Defining Ecosystem Services
- Ecosystem Services and Security: The Fog of Vulnerability
- Human-Triggered Earthquakes and Their Impacts on Human Security
- Mechanisms of Governance of Agro-Ecosystem Services
- A Framework for Ecosystem Services Planning
- Perspectives on the Atmospheres Role in Sustaining Ecosystem Services
- Evolution of Ecosystem Management for Stewardship of U.S. Military Lands
- Part II: Designing Ecosystem Services
- The Use of Scenario Analysis to Assess Water Ecosystem Services in Response to Future Land Use Change in the Willamette River Basin, Oregon
- Environment and Human Security in the Eastern Mediterranean: Regional Environmentalism in the Reframing of Palestinian-Israeli-Jordanian Relations
- The Western Balkans: Environmental and Human Security
- Expanding Ecosystem Services: Climate Change, Phenology, and the Building of Citizen 8220;Scientists8221;
- Assessment of the Consequences of Anthropogenic Catastrophes on Ecological-Genetic Environmental Conditions and Human Health
- The Use of Simulation Models and Optimization Techniques in Environmental Management: The Example of Ecosystem Service Trade-Offs
- Part III: Delivering Ecosystem Services
- Ecosystem Services in the Context of Human Development
- Delivering Ecosystem Service Benefits: Science and Innovation for Sustainable Development
- Real-Time Remote Sensing in Support of Ecosystem Services and Sustainability
- Geospatial Technologies and Their Benefit for Ecosystem Services and Human Welfare
- Food Security and Eco-terrorism: Recognizing Vulnerabilities and Protecting Ecosystems
- Delivering the Architecture of Ecosystem Services: Daylight Modeling for a Sustainable Building Design
- Summary
- Ecosystem Services and Human Welfare
- Subject Index
- Author Index.