Institutions, Ecosystems, and Sustainability

ISBN-13: 9781566703895 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 288 str.

Robert Costanza; Bobbi S. Low; Lin Ostrom

Opis

Institutions, Ecosystems and Sustainability focuses on long-term, sust ainable natural resource management practices at the local, national, and international levels. The authors suggest that a major cause of th e "sustainability problem" - regulatory policies for large areas that often threaten the sustainability of both natural resources and previo usly effective governance problems - lie in "scale" problems. Large sc ale ecosystems are not simply larger versions of smaller systems, and micro-scale ecosystems are not merely microcosms of large scale system s. The driving forces and feedback mechanisms operate at different lev els and exhibit distinct patterns of their own.

Spis treści

Introduction. Models. Empirical Studies. Conclusions. Glossary.

O autorze

Robert Costanza, Bobbi S. Low , Elinor Ostrom, James Wilson