Ecosystem services : global issues, local practices / edited by Sander Jacobs, Nicolas Dendoncker, Hans Kuene.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jacobs, Sander, editor.

Dendoncker, Nicolas, editor.

Keune, Hans, editor.

Series:

Gale eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ecosystem services.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxii, 422 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Place of Publication:

San Diego, CA : Elsevier, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Ecosystem Services: Global Issues, Local Practices covers scientific input, socioeconomic considerations, and governance issues on ecosystem services. This book provides hands-on transdisciplinary reflections by administrators and sector representatives involved in the ecosystem service community. Ecosystem Services develops shared approaches and scientific methods to achieve knowledge-based sustainable planning and management of ecosystem services. Professionals engaged in ecosystem service implementation have two options: de-emphasize the ecological and socioeconomic

Contents:

Front Cover; Ecosystem Services Global Issues, Local Practices; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Contributors; Editorial for Ecosystem Services-Global Issues, Local Practices No Root, No Fruit-Sustainability and Ecosystem Services; No Root, No Fruit-Sustainability and Ecosystem Services; 1. LIMITS; 2. FAIRNESS; 3. COMPLEXITY; 4. REALITY CHECK; A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO THE OUTER COMFORT ZONE; REFERENCES; INTRODUCTION; READERS' GUIDE; Part I - Ecosystem Service Basics; Chapter 1 - Inclusive Ecosystem Services Valuation; 1. INTRODUCTION: ON VALUE AND VALUATION; 2. WHY DO WE VALUE?

3. VALUATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT-A THREE-PILLAR VALUATION FRAMEWORK4. IS VALUATION OF ES ENOUGH FOR PROPER ENVIRONMENTAL DECISION MAKING?; REFERENCES; Chapter 2 - Ecosystem Services and Their Monetary Value; 1. WHY SHOULD WE MONETIZE ES?; 2. WHAT IS MONETARY VALUATION?; 3. WHAT ARE WE VALUING?; 4. THE ECONOMIST TOOLBOX; 5. MONETARY VALUATION OF ES IN BELGIUM; 6. CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; Chapter 3 - Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. BIODIVERSITY; 3. BIODIVERSITY WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; 4. BIODIVERSITY AND ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING; REFERENCES

Chapter 4 - Ecosystem Service Indicators: Are We Measuring What We Want to Manage?1. INTRODUCTION; 2. A SYSTEMS APPROACH FOR THE DEVELOPMENT, INTERPRETATION, AND ASSESSMENT OF INDICATORS; 3. CASE STUDY: ECOSYSTEM SERVICE INDICATORS IN FLANDERS; 4. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; REFERENCES; Chapter 5 - Inquiring into the Governance of Ecosystem Services: An Introduction; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. WHAT IS GOVERNANCE?; 3. THE PRACTICE OF GOVERNANCE; 4. KNOWLEDGE: DIVERSITY, ETHICS, AND POWER; REFERENCES; Part II -Ecosystem Services: Conceptual Reflections

Chapter 6 - Monetary Valuation of Ecosystem Services: Unresolvable Problems with the Standard Economic ModelDISCOUNTING THE FUTURE; THE SOURCES OF UTILITY ARE COMMENSURABLE; HUMANS ARE NARROWLY RATIONAL AND SELF-REGARDING; REFERENCES; Chapter 7 - Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Opposed Visions, Opposed Paradigms; REFERENCES; Chapter 8 - Earth System Services-A Global Science Perspective on Ecosystem Services; REFERENCES; Chapter 9 - Ecosystem Services in a Societal Context; A New and Useful Concept; A CLOSER LOOK AT THE CASCADE; FROM ECOSYSTEMS TO VALUE: A LONG CASCADE

WHAT IS A SERVICE? NO FINAL CONSUMPTION, NO FREE GIFT OF NATUREES IN A POLICY CONTEXT; ES IN A GROWTH CONTEXT; ESS IN A SUSTAINABILITY CONTEXT; CONCLUSION; Chapter 10 - The Value of the Ecosystem Services Concept in Economic and Biodiversity Policy; INTRODUCTION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; THE ECONOMICS OF ECOSYSTEMS AND BIODIVERSITY; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; Part III -Ecosystem Service Debates; Chapter 11 - Valuation of ES: Challenges and Policy Use; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. UNCERTAINTY AND COMPLEXITY IN QUANTIFICATION AND VALUATION; 3. CHALLENGES IN USING MONETARY VALUES FOR POLICY APPRAISAL

4. CONCLUSION

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 19, 2013).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780124199804

0124199801

OCLC:

880853074