Pushpam Kumar, Michael Wood

Valuation of Regulating Services of Ecosystems (eBook, PDF)

Methodology and Applications

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The valuation of regulating services is an evolving field of ecological economics. In this book, Professor Pushpam Kumar and Professor Michael D. Wood have invited some of the foremost international experts in the field of ecosystem services valuation to contribute chapters on the valuation of regulating services and highlight some of the main obstacles to the implementation and acceptance of these methodologies in the context of decision-making.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136942457
• Artikelnr.: 42509276

Autorenporträt

Pushpam Kumar lectures on Environmental Economics at the University of Liverpool, UK.

Michael D. Wood is an environmental scientist at the University of Liverpool, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Concepts 1. An Introduction to the Valuation of Regulating Services
2. Valuing Ecosystem Services: Benefits, Values, Space and Time 3.
Ecosystem Services: Managing Trade-Offs between Provisioning and Regulating
Services 4. The "Ecosystem Service Framework": A Critical Assessment Part
2: Methodological Applications 5. Evaluating the Economic Impacts of Water
Harvesting in Burkina Faso 6. Accounting for Regulating Services 7.
Valuation of Ecosystem Services in Coastal Ecosystems: Asian and European
Perspectives 8. Valuing the Storm Protection Services of the Mangroves:
Methodological and Data Challenges 9. European Forests and Carbon
Sequestration Services: An Economic Assessment of Climate Change Impacts
10. Valuing the Services of Coral Reef Systems for Sustainable Coastal
Management: A Case Study of the Gulf of Kachchh, India Part 3: Synthesis
11. Institutions and Ecosystem Functions: The Case of Keti Bunder, Pakistan
12. Valuation of Ecosystem Services: Methods, Opportunities and Policy
Implications 13. Conclusions on the Valuation of Regulating Services:
Current Status and Future Perspectives