Ecosystem services for sustainability /

This book explores the variety of benefits that ecosystems provide. It discusses how nature provides for humankind, and how humankind can protect those valuable natural resources. The volume also attempts to manage and value ecosystem services by integrating them into our global economy and practici...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Anderson, Ray C. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Great Barrington, MA : Berkshire, 2013.
Colección:Berkshire essentials
Temas:
Ecosystem management.
Biodiversity conservation.
Human ecology.
Écosystèmes > Gestion.
Biodiversité > Conservation.
Écologie humaine.
human ecology.
Biodiversity conservation
Ecosystem management
Human ecology
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : what are ecosystem services?
  • Air pollution indicators and monitoring
  • Aquifers
  • Biocentrism
  • Buffers
  • Clean Air Act
  • Coastal management
  • Ecosystem health indicators
  • Externality valuation
  • Fish
  • Food webs
  • Forests
  • Glaciers
  • Global climate change
  • Grasslands
  • Greenhouse gasses
  • Insects
  • Landscape architecture
  • Medicinal plants
  • Microbial ecosystem processes
  • Mutualism
  • Natural capital
  • Nutrient and biogeochemical cycling
  • Ocean resource management
  • Permaculture
  • Plant-animal interactions
  • Recreation, outdoor
  • Resilience
  • Rivers
  • Soil
  • Succession
  • True cost economics
  • Water
  • Wetlands.

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