Mark Everard

Ecosystem Services

Key Issues

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Revised and fully updated, this textbook provides a detailed yet accessible introduction to the key aspects of ecosystem services.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 653g
• ISBN-13: 9781032021997
• ISBN-10: 1032021993
• Artikelnr.: 62569632

Autorenporträt

Mark Everard is Associate Professor of Ecosystem Services at the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol), UK, and Director of Pundamilia Ltd. He has extensive practical experience in the development and implementation of the Ecosystem Approach and in Government advisory roles, including the UK National Ecosystem Assessment and the Defra Natural Value Programme. He is the author of numerous books, particularly on the management of freshwater resources, and has worked on international development projects in South and East Africa, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, China and Bhutan.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction to ecosystem services 2. Origins and evolution of the
concept and practice of ecosystem services 3. Conservation of ecosystems
and their services 4. Understanding systems 5. Ethical considerations 6.
Valuing ecosystem services 7. International initiatives to embed ecosystem
services 8. Putting ecosystem services into practice 9. The economics of
ecosystem services 10. Rebuilding the Earth 11. Ecosystem services and the
pursuit of a sustainable future