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Streams of revenue : the restoration economy and the ecosystems it creates / Rebecca Lave and Martin Doyle.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lave, Rebecca, 1970- author.
- Doyle, Martin, 1973- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wetland mitigation banking--United States.
- Wetland mitigation banking.
- Environmental policy--Economic aspects--United States.
- Environmental policy.
- Ecosystem services--United States.
- Ecosystem services.
- Stream restoration--Economic aspects--United States.
- Stream restoration.
- Restoration ecology--Economic aspects--United States.
- Restoration ecology.
- United States. Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The MIT Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- "One of the most influential, and perhaps surprising,developments in environmental policy in recent decades is the idea that we can protect the environment from the negative impacts of economic development by making environmental protection itself more economic. The goal is to reduce environmental harm not by preventing it, but by pricing it. Using stream mitigation banking, that is the market for rivers and streams under Section 404 of the US Clean Water Act, as a case, Lave and Doyle explain where market-based environmental management approaches came from, how they work in practice, and what they do on ground"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Market-based approaches to conservation
- How stream restoration was born, and what came of it
- How markets, and mitigation, came to be accepted forms of environmental regulation
- The actors in stream mitigation banking
- How mitigation banks work, and the biography of a bank
- The mangle of practice
- Conclusion: Can markets for ecosystem services fix conservation?
- Notes:
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-262-35907-3
- 0-262-35906-5
- OCLC:
- 1187209551
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