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101 0 $aeng
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200 00$aEcosystem services for sustainability /$fRay C. Anderson, general editor
210  1$aGreat Barrington, MA :$cBerkshire,$d2013.
215   $a1 online resource (viii, 168 pages) $ccolor illustrations
225 1 $aBerkshire essentials
300   $a"This Berkshire essentials title was distilled from the Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability."-- back cover.
311   $a1-61472-966-2 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aIntroduction : 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.
330   $aThis book explores the variety of benefits that ecosystems provide. It discusses how nature provides for humankind, and how humankind can protect those valuable natural resources. The volume also attempts to manage and value ecosystem services by integrating them into our global economy and practicing "biocentrism."
410  0$aBerkshire essentials.
606   $aEcosystem management
606   $aBiodiversity conservation
606   $aHuman ecology
615  0$aEcosystem management.
615  0$aBiodiversity conservation.
615  0$aHuman ecology.
676   $a333.72
700   $aBronstein$b Judith L.$01707086
702   $aAnderson$b Ray C.
801  0$bMiFhGG
801  1$bMiFhGG
906   $aBOOK
912   $a9910821869003321
996   $aEcosystem services for sustainability$94095019
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