Biodiversity, sustainability, and human communities [electronic resource] : protecting beyond the protected / edited by Tim O'Riordan and Susanne Stoll-Kleemann.

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by O'Riordan, Timothy.
Call Number 333.95160973 22
Publication Date 2002
Summary "Biodiversity is the key indicator of a healthy planet and healthy society. Losses of biodiversity have now become widespread and current rates are potentially catastrophic for species and habitat integrity. Biodiversity, Sustainability and Human Communities advocates both the preservation of the best remaining habitats and the enhancement of new biodiverse habitats to ensure that they cope with human impact, climate change and alien species invasion. The authors argue that these aims can be achieved by a mix of strict protection, by inclusive involvement of people inside and adjacent to reserves, and by combining livelihoods and social wellbeing in all future biodiversity management."--Jacket.
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Natural capital [electronic resource] : theory & practice of mapping ecosystem services / edited by Peter Kareiva [and others].

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by Kareiva, Peter M., 1951-
Call Number 333.95
Publication Date 2011
Summary "In 2005, The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) provided the first global assessment of the world's ecosystems and ecosystem services. It concluded that recent trends in ecosystem change threatened human wellbeing due to declining ecosystem services. This bleak prophecy has galvanized conservation organizations, ecologists, and economists to work toward rigorous valuations of ecosystem services at a spatial scale and with a resolution that can inform public policy. 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. A key idea that guides the science is that the modelling and valuation approaches being developed should use data that are readily available around the world. In addition, the book documents a toolbox of ecosystem service mapping, modeling, and valuation models that both The Nature Conservancy and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) are beginning to apply around the world as they transform conservation from a biodiversity only to a people and ecosystem services agenda. The book addresses land, freshwater, and marine systems at a variety of spatial scales and includesdiscussion of how to treat both climate change and cultural values when examining tradeoffs among ecosystem services"--Provided by publisher.
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Biodiversity, sustainability, and human communities [electronic resource] : protecting beyond the protected / edited by Tim O'Riordan and Susanne Stoll-Kleemann.

Natural capital [electronic resource] : theory & practice of mapping ecosystem services / edited by Peter Kareiva [and others].