Natural capital: theory and practice of mapping ecosystem services

The editors have assembled the world's leading scientists in the fields of conservation, policy analysis, and resource economics to provide the most intensive and best technical analyses of ecosystem services to date. INDICE: Hal Mooney: Preface; SECTION ONE: A VISION FOR ECOSYSTEM SERVICES IN DECISIONS; 1: Gretchen C. Daily, Peter Kareiva, Stephen Polasky, Taylor Ricketts, and Heather Tallis (Boxes by M. Sanjayan and Stephen R. Carpenter): Mainstreaming Natural Capital into Decisions; 2: Lawrence H. Goulder and Donald Kennedy (Box by R.K. Turner): Interpreting and Estimating the Value of Ecosystem Services; 3: Heather Tallis and Stephen Polasky (Box by Liba Pejchar): Assessing Multiple Ecosystem Services: An Integrated Tool for the Real World; SECTION TWO: MULTI-TIERED MODELS FOR ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; 4: Guillermo Mendoza, Driss Ennaanay, Marc Conte, Michael Todd Walter, David Freyberg, Stacie Wolny, Lauren Hay, Sue White, Erik Nelson and Luis Solorzano (Box by Heather Tallis, Wang Yukuan, and Driss Ennaanay): Water Supply as an Ecosystem Service for Hydropower and Irrigation; 5: Driss Ennaanay, Marc Conte, Kenneth Brooks, John Nieber, Manu Sharma, Stacie Wolny, and Guillermo Mendoza (Box by David Harrison): Valuing Land Cover Impact on Storm Peak Mitigation; 6: Marc Conte, Driss Ennaanay, Guillermo Mendoza, Michael Todd Walter, Stacie Wolny, David Freyberg, ErikNelson, and Luis Solorzano (Box by Christine Tam): Retention of Nutrients andSediment by Vegetation; 7: Marc Conte, Erik Nelson, Karen Carney, Cinzia Fissore, Nasser Olwero, Andrew Plantinga, Bill Stanley, and Taylor Ricketts (Boxesby Bill Stanley and Nicole Virgilio, and Andrew R. Marshall and PKT Munishi):Terrestrial Carbon Sequestration and Storage; 8: Erik Nelson, Claire Montgomery, Marc Conte, and Steve Polasky (Box by Eric Wikramanayake, Rajendra Gurung,and Eric Dinerstein): The Provisioning Value of Timber and Non-Timber Forest Production; 9: Erik Nelson, Stan Wood, Jawoo Koo and Stephen Polasky: Provisioning and Regulatory Ecosystem Service Values in Agriculture; 10: Eric Lonsdorf, Taylor Ricketts, Claire Kremen, Rachel Winfree, Sarah Greenleaf, and Neal Williams (Boxes by Nicola Gallai, Bernard E. Vaissiere, Simon G. Potts, and Jean-Michel Salles, and Berry Brosi): Crop Pollination; 11: Vic Adamowicz, Robin Naidoo, Erik Nelson, Steve Polasky, and Jing Zhang (Box by Christopher Kirkby, Renzo Giudice, Brett Day, Kerry Turner, Bridaldo Silveira Soares-Filho, Hermann Oliveira-Rodrigues, and Douglas W. Yu): Nature-Based Tourism and Recreation;12: Kai Chan, Joshua Goldstein, Terre Satterfield, Neil Hannahs, Kekuewa Kikiloi, Robin Naidoo, Nathan Vadeboncoeur, and Ulalia Woodside (Boxes by Ma Jianzhong and Christine Tam, and Hazel Wong): Cultural Services and Non-use Values;13: Erik Nelson, Dick Cameron, Jim Regetz, Stephen Polasky and Gretchen C. Daily (Box by Jai Ranganathan and Gretchen C. Daily): Terrestrial Biodiversity; SECTION THREE: EXTENSIONS, APPLICATIONS, AND THE NEXT GENERATION OF ECOSYSTEM SERVICE ASSESSMENTS; 14: Stephen Polasky, Georgio Caldarone, T. Ka'eo Duarte, Joshua Goldstein, Neil Hannahs, Taylor Ricketts, and Heather Tallis (Box by Neil Hannahs): Putting Ecosystem Servic

• ISBN: 978-0-19-958899-2
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 432
• Fecha Publicación: 01/04/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés