Natural Capital : Theory and Practice of Mapping Ecosystem Services (9780199589005)

In 2005, The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) provided the first global assessment of the world's ecosystems and ecosystem services. It concluded that recent trends in ecosystem change threatened human wellbeing due to declining ecosystem services. This bleak prophecy has galvanized conservation organizations, ecologists, and economists to work toward rigorous valuations of ecosystem services at a spatial scale and with a resolution that can inform public policy.

The editors have assembled the world's leading scientists in the fields of conservation, policy analysis, and resource economics to provide the most intensive and best technical analyses of ecosystem services to date. A key idea that guides the science is that the modelling and valuation approaches being developed should use data that are readily available around the world. In addition, the book documents a toolbox of ecosystem service mapping, modeling, and valuation models that both The
Nature Conservancy and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) are beginning to apply around the world as they transform conservation from a biodiversity only to a people and ecosystem services agenda. The book addresses land, freshwater, and marine systems at a variety of spatial scales and includes
discussion of how to treat both climate change and cultural values when examining tradeoffs among ecosystem services.

Product details

• Format Paperback | 392 pages
• Dimensions 197 x 250 x 21mm | 878g
• Publication date 11 Jun 2011
• Publisher Oxford University Press
• Publication City/Country Oxford, United Kingdom
• Language English
• Illustrations note Over 100 black and white illustrations, and an 8 page colour plate section
• ISBN10 0199589003
• ISBN13 9780199589005
• Bestsellers rank 592,059

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