Charles Perrings is Professor of Environmental Economics at Arizona State University, where he directs the Ecoservices Group. He was for several years vice-chair of the international biodiversity science research program, DIVERSITAS, and more recently represented the International Council of Science in negotiations with national governments to establish the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES).
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.
