Capitalizing on Nature: Ecosystems as Natural Assets - Couverture souple

Barbier, Edward B. B.

 
9780521189279: Capitalizing on Nature: Ecosystems as Natural Assets
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0521189276 ISBN 13 : 9780521189279
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2011

Synopsis

The basic unit of nature – the ecosystem – is a special form of wealth, which we can think of as a stock of natural capital. However, perhaps because this capital is free, we have tended to view it as limitless, abundant and always available for our use, exploitation and conversion. Capitalizing on Nature shows how modeling ecosystems as natural capital can help us to analyze the economic behavior that has led to the overuse of so much ecological wealth. It explains how this concept of ecosystem as natural capital sheds light on a number of important issues, including landscape conversion, ecological restoration, ecosystem resilience and collapse, spatial benefits and payments for ecosystem services. The book concludes by focusing on major policy challenges that need to be overcome in order to avert the worsening problem of ecological scarcity and how we can fund novel financing mechanisms for global conservation.

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À propos de l'auteur

Edward B. Barbier is the John S. Bugas Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics and Finance, University of Wyoming. He has over twenty-five years' experience as an environmental and resource economist, working mainly on the economics of environment and development issues. He is the author of many books on environmental policy, including Natural Resources and Economic Development (2005), A Global Green New Deal (2010) and Scarcity and Frontiers: How Economies Have Developed Through Natural Resource Exploitation (2010), all published by Cambridge University Press.

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0521189276
ISBN 13 
9780521189279
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
336
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ISBN 10 :  1107007275 ISBN 13 :  9781107007277
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2011
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