Nature's services : edited by Gretchen C. Daily.

Nature's services : edited by Gretchen C. Daily.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Daily, Gretchen C. (edt_f)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington : Island Press, 1997.
Subjects:
ECOLOGIA
ECOLOGIA HUMANA
PROTECCION DEL MEDIO AMBIENTE
COLECCION REBORATTI
Table of Contents:
  • Preface / Gretchen C. Daily.
  • Perspectives on Nature's Services / John Peterson Myers and Joshua S. Reichert.
  • 1. Introduction : what are ecosystem services? / Gretchen C. Daily.
  • 2. Ecosystem services : a fragmentary history / Harold A. Moonet and Paul R. Ehrlich.
  • Part I : economic issues of valiation : 3. Valuing ecosystem services : philosophical bases and empirical methods / Lawrence H. Goulder and Donald Kennedy.
  • 4. Valuing ecosystem services with efficiency, fairness, and sustainability as goals / Robert Costanza and Carl Folke.
  • Part II : overarching services : 5. The interaction of climate and life / Susan E. Alexander, Stephen H. Schneider, and Kalen Lagerquist.
  • 6. Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning / David Tilman.
  • 7. Ecosystem services supplied by soil / Gretchen C. Daily, Pamela A. Matson, and Peter M. Vitousek.
  • 8. Services provided by pollinators / Gary Paul Nabhan and Stephen L. Buchmann.
  • 9. Natural pest control services and agriculture / Rosamond L. Naylor and Paul R. Ehrlich.
  • Part III : services supplied by major biomes : 10. Marine ecosystem services / Charles H. Peterson and Jane Lubchenco.
  • 11. Freshwater ecosystem services / Sandra Postel and Stephen Carpenter.
  • 12. The world's forests and their ecosystem services / Norman Myers.
  • 13. Ecosystem services in Grasslands / Osvaldo E. Sala and José M. Paruelo.
  • Part IV : case studies : 14. Biodiversity's genetic library / Norman Myers.
  • 15. Impacts of marine resource extraction on ecosystem services and sustainability / Les Kaufman and Paul Dayton.
  • 16. Ecosystem services in subsistence economies and conservation of biodiversity / Kamaljit S. Bawa and Madhav Gadgil.
  • 17. Ecosystem services in a modern economy : Gunnison Country, Colorado / Andrew Wilcox and John Harte.
  • 18. Water quality improvement by Wetlands / Katherine C. Ewel.
  • 19. Services supplied by South African fynbos ecosystems / Richard M. Cowling, Robert Costanza, and Steven I. Higgins.
  • Part V : conclusion : 20. Valuing and safeguarding earth's life-support systems / Gretchen C. Daily.

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