02432oam 2200469 450 991079590310332120190911112719.01-61472-967-0(OCoLC)878127426(MiFhGG)GVRL8FEE(EXLCZ)99378000000005656220130717d2013 uy 0engurun|---uuuuatxtccrEcosystem services for sustainability /Ray C. Anderson, general editorGreat Barrington, MA :Berkshire,2013.1 online resource (viii, 168 pages) color illustrationsBerkshire essentials"This Berkshire essentials title was distilled from the Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability."-- back cover.1-61472-966-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 gases -- 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.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 practicing "biocentrism."Berkshire essentials.Ecosystem managementBiodiversity conservationHuman ecologyEcosystem management.Biodiversity conservation.Human ecology.333.72Bronstein Judith L.1506213Anderson Ray C.MiFhGGMiFhGGBOOK9910795903103321Ecosystem services for sustainability3736326UNINA