Ecosystem services : global issues, local practices / / edited by Sander Jcobs, Nicolas Dendoncker, Hans Keune

• Pubblicazione: Boston : , : Elsevier, , 2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (455 p.)
• Disciplina: 333.95
• Soggetto topico: Biodiversity - Economic aspects; Ecosystem management
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Classificazione: 52.08.36
• Altri autori: JacobsSander DendonckerNicolas KeuneHans
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover; Ecosystem Services Global Issues, Local Practices; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Contributors; Editorial for Ecosystem Services-Global Issues, Local Practices No Root, No Fruit-Sustainability and Ecosystem Services; No Root, No Fruit-Sustainability and Ecosystem Services; 1. LIMITS; 2. FAIRNESS; 3. COMPLEXITY; 4. REALITY CHECK; A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO THE OUTER COMFORT ZONE; REFERENCES; INTRODUCTION; READERS' GUIDE; Part I - Ecosystem Service Basics; Chapter 1 - Inclusive Ecosystem Services Valuation; 1. INTRODUCTION: ON VALUE AND VALUATION; 2. WHY DO WE VALUE? ; 3. VALUATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT-A THREE-PILLAR VALUATION FRAMEWORK4. IS VALUATION OF ES ENOUGH FOR PROPER ENVIRONMENTAL DECISION MAKING?; REFERENCES; Chapter 2 - Ecosystem Services and Their Monetary Value; 1. WHY SHOULD WE MONETIZE ES?; 2. WHAT IS MONETARY VALUATION?; 3. WHAT ARE WE VALUING?; 4. THE ECONOMIST TOOLBOX; 5. MONETARY VALUATION OF ES IN BELGIUM; 6. CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; Chapter 3 - Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. BIODIVERSITY; 3. BIODIVERSITY WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; 4. BIODIVERSITY AND ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING; REFERENCES ; Chapter 4 - Ecosystem Service Indicators: Are We Measuring What We Want to Manage?1. INTRODUCTION; 2. A SYSTEMS APPROACH FOR THE DEVELOPMENT, INTERPRETATION, AND ASSESSMENT OF INDICATORS; 3. CASE STUDY: ECOSYSTEM SERVICE INDICATORS IN FLANDERS; 4. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; REFERENCES; Chapter 5 - Inquiring into the Governance of Ecosystem Services: An Introduction; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. WHAT IS GOVERNANCE?; 3. THE PRACTICE OF GOVERNANCE; 4. KNOWLEDGE: DIVERSITY, ETHICS, AND POWER; REFERENCES; Part II -Ecosystem Services: Conceptual Reflections ; Chapter 6 - Monetary Valuation of Ecosystem Services: Unresolvable Problems with the Standard Economic ModelDISCOUNTING THE FUTURE; THE SOURCES OF UTILITY ARE COMMENSURABLE; HUMANS ARE NARROWLY RATIONAL AND SELF-REGARDING; REFERENCES; Chapter 7 - Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Opposed Visions, Opposed Paradigms; REFERENCES; Chapter 8 - Earth System Services-A Global Science Perspective on Ecosystem Services; REFERENCES; Chapter 9 - Ecosystem Services in a Societal Context; A New and Useful Concept; A CLOSER LOOK AT THE CASCADE; FROM ECOSYSTEMS TO VALUE: A LONG CASCADE ; WHAT IS A SERVICE? NO FINAL CONSUMPTION, NO FREE GIFT OF NATUREES IN A POLICY CONTEXT; ES IN A GROWTH CONTEXT; ESS IN A SUSTAINABILITY CONTEXT; CONCLUSION; Chapter 10 - The Value of the Ecosystem Services Concept in Economic and Biodiversity Policy; INTRODUCTION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; THE ECONOMICS OF ECOSYSTEMS AND BIODIVERSITY; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; Part III -Ecosystem Service Debates; Chapter 11 - Valuation of ES: Challenges and Policy Use; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. UNCERTAINTY AND COMPLEXITY IN QUANTIFICATION AND VALUATION; 3. CHALLENGES IN USING MONETARY VALUES FOR POLICY APPRAISAL ; 4. CONCLUSION
• Sommario/riassunto: Ecosystem Services: Global Issues, Local Practices covers scientific input, socioeconomic considerations, and governance issues on ecosystem services. This book provides hands-on transdisciplinary reflections by administrators and sector representatives involved in the ecosystem service community. Ecosystem Services develops shared approaches and scientific methods to achieve knowledge-based sustainable planning and management of ecosystem services. Professionals engaged in ecosystem service implementation have two options: de-emphasize the ecological and socioeconomic
• Titolo autorizzato: Ecosystem services
• ISBN: 0-12-419980-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910453561803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II