Nature and the Marketplace: Capturing the Value of Ecosystem Services

ISBN-13: 9781559637961 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 224 str.

Geoffrey Heal; G. M. Heal

Opis

In recent years, scientists have begun to focus on the idea that healthy, functioning ecosystems provide essential services to human populations, ranging from water purification to food and medicine to climate regulation. Lacking a healthy environment, these services would have to be provided through mechanical means, at a tremendous economic and social cost.