Ecosystem Services
Global Issues, Local Practices

Ecosystem Services: Global Issues, Local Practices covers scientific input, socioeconomic considerations, and governance issues on ecosystem services.

Sander Jacobs (Edited by), Nicolas Dendoncker (Edited by), Hans Keune (Edited by)

9780124199644

Paperback, published 26 November 2013

456 pages, 55 illustrations (35 in full color)
22.9 x 15.1 x 2.9 cm, 0.78 kg

"Environmental and earth scientists explore ecosystem services from the perspectives of basics, conceptual reflections, debates, tools and practices, and reflections from practice. Among specific topics are ecosystem services and their monetary value, ecosystem services in Belgian environmental policy making, an ecosystem services perspective on the natural relation between biodiversity and public health,…" --ProtoView.com, February 2014

Approx.440 pages

PART I Ecosystem Service Bacics
PART II Ecosystem Services: Conceptual Reflections
PART III Ecosystem Service Debates
PART IV Ecosystem Services: Tools & Practices
PART V Ecosystem Service Reflections from Practice

Subject Areas: Environmental science, engineering & technology [TQ], Conservation of the environment [RNK], Applied ecology [RNC]