Ecosystem services for sustainability / / Ray C. Anderson, general editor

• Autore: Bronstein Judith L.
• Pubblicazione: Great Barrington, MA : , : Berkshire, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (viii, 168 pages) : color illustrations
• Disciplina: 333.72
• Soggetto topico: Ecosystem management; Biodiversity conservation; Human ecology
• Persona (resp. second.): AndersonRay C.
• Note generali: "This Berkshire essentials title was distilled from the Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability."-- back cover.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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."
• Titolo autorizzato: Ecosystem services for sustainability
• ISBN: 1-61472-967-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910821869003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Berkshire essentials.