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100 _aPerrings, Charles.
245 _aOur uncommon heritage :
_bbiodiversity change, ecosystem services, and human wellbeing /
_cCharles Perrings.
264 _aCambridge ; New York :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2014.
300 _axxxix, 522 pages :
_billustrations, maps ;
_c24 cm
336 _atext
_2 rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_2 rdamedia
338 _avolume
_2 rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 _aMachine generated contents note: Foreword; Preface; 1. Biodiversity change; Part I. Diagnosing the Biodiversity Change Problem: 2. Biodiversity in the modern world; 3. Biodiversity and ecosystem services; 4. Biodiversity loss, sustainability and stability; 5. Biodiversity externalities and public goods; 6. Poverty alleviation and biodiversity change; 7. Globalization: trade, aid, and the dispersal of species; Part II. The Search for Solutions: 8. Getting the prognosis right; 9. Understanding what is lost; 10. Managing risk, uncertainty, and irreversibility in biodiversity change; 11. Conservation incentives and payments for ecosystems services; 12. Paying for International environmental public goods; 13. Strengthening the biodiversity-related multilateral agreements; 14. Genetic resources and the poor; 15. Redirecting biodiversity change; Index.
520 _a"Biodiversity change is the biggest environmental problem of our time. It leads to much more than species extinctions, affecting the food we eat, the diseases we face, our vulnerability to fire and flood, and our ability to adapt to climate change. Our Uncommon Heritage explores the many dimensions of human-driven biodiversity change. It integrates ecology, economics and policy to examine the causes and consequences of changes in ecosystems, species and genes, and to identify better ways to manage those changes. It explores the place of biodiversity in the wealth of nations, the rights and responsibilities people have for natural resources at local, regional, national and international levels, and the challenges faced in protecting the common good at the global level. This is an important book for students and researchers in the fields of conservation and sustainability science, ecology, natural resource economics and management. It also has much to say to those engaged in international conservation, health, agriculture, forestry and fisheries policy"--
_cProvided by publisher.
520 _a"The economic development that was initiated by the Industrial Revolution has been self-consciously intensive in the use of natural resources. The pace hasn't slowed. Since the end of the 2nd World War even as world population and average income per person have grown at unprecedented rates, humanity's reliance on natural resources in large measure have increased correspondingly"--
_cProvided by publisher.
650 _aEcology
_x Economic aspects.
650 _aBiodiversity
_x Economic aspects.
650 _aEcosystem services.
650 _aEnvironmental economics.
650 _aBUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Environmental Economics.
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