Nature's Services

Societal Dependence On Natural Ecosystems

Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Nature, Environment, Ecology, Science, Biological Sciences, Zoology
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Author: Gretchen Daily, Sandra Postel, Kamaljit Bawa, Stephen Carpenter, Les Kaufman, Charles H. Peterson ISBN: 9781597267755
Publisher: Island Press Publication: September 26, 2012
Imprint: Island Press Language: English
Author: Gretchen Daily, Sandra Postel, Kamaljit Bawa, Stephen Carpenter, Les Kaufman, Charles H. Peterson
ISBN: 9781597267755
Publisher: Island Press
Publication: September 26, 2012
Imprint: Island Press
Language: English

Life itself as well as the entire human economy depends on goods and services provided by earth's natural systems. The processes of cleansing, recycling, and renewal, along with goods such as seafood, forage, and timber, are worth many trillions of dollars annually, and nothing could live without them. Yet growing human impacts on the environmare profoundly disrupting the functioning of natural systems and imperiling the delivery of these services.Nature's Services brings together world-renowned scientists from a variety of disciplines to examine the character and value of ecosystem services, the damage that has been done to them, and the consequimplications for human society. Contributors including Paul R. Ehrlich, Donald Kennedy, Pamela A. Matson, Robert Costanza, Gary Paul Nabhan, Jane Lubchenco, Sandra Postel, and Norman Myers presa detailed synthesis of our currunderstanding of a suite of ecosystem services and a preliminary assessmof their economic value. Chapters consider: major services including climate regulation, soil fertility, pollination, and pest control philosophical and economic issues of valuation case studies of specific ecosystems and services implication of recfindings and steps that must be taken to address the mpressing concerns Nature's Services represents one of the first efforts by scientists to provide an overview of the many benefits and services that nature offers to people and the extto which we are all vitally dependon those services. The book enhances our understanding of the value of the natural systems that surround us and can play an essential role in encouraging greater efforts to protect the earth's basic life-support systems before it is too late.

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Life itself as well as the entire human economy depends on goods and services provided by earth's natural systems. The processes of cleansing, recycling, and renewal, along with goods such as seafood, forage, and timber, are worth many trillions of dollars annually, and nothing could live without them. Yet growing human impacts on the environmare profoundly disrupting the functioning of natural systems and imperiling the delivery of these services.Nature's Services brings together world-renowned scientists from a variety of disciplines to examine the character and value of ecosystem services, the damage that has been done to them, and the consequimplications for human society. Contributors including Paul R. Ehrlich, Donald Kennedy, Pamela A. Matson, Robert Costanza, Gary Paul Nabhan, Jane Lubchenco, Sandra Postel, and Norman Myers presa detailed synthesis of our currunderstanding of a suite of ecosystem services and a preliminary assessmof their economic value. Chapters consider: major services including climate regulation, soil fertility, pollination, and pest control philosophical and economic issues of valuation case studies of specific ecosystems and services implication of recfindings and steps that must be taken to address the mpressing concerns Nature's Services represents one of the first efforts by scientists to provide an overview of the many benefits and services that nature offers to people and the extto which we are all vitally dependon those services. The book enhances our understanding of the value of the natural systems that surround us and can play an essential role in encouraging greater efforts to protect the earth's basic life-support systems before it is too late.

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