Nature and the Marketplace: Capturing The Value Of Ecosystem Services
Description:
In recent years, scientists have begun to focus on the idea that healthy, functioning ecosystems provide essential services to human populations, ranging from water purification to food and medicine to climate regulation. Lacking a healthy environment, these services would have to be provided through mechanical means, at a tremendous economic and social cost.
Nature and the Marketplace examines the controversial proposition that markets should be designed to capture the value of those services. Written by an economist with a background in business, it evaluates the real prospects for various of nature's marketable services to "turn profits" at levels that exceed the profits expected from alternative, ecologically destructive, business activities. The author:
- describes the infrastructure that natural systems provide, how we depend on it, and how we are affecting it
- explains the market mechanism and how it can lead to more efficient resource use
- looks at key economic activities-such as ecotourism, bioprospecting, and carbon sequestration-where market forces can provide incentives for conservation
- examines policy options other than the market, such as pollution credits and mitigation banking
- considers the issue of sustainability and equity between generations
Nature and the Marketplace presents an accessible introduction to the concept of ecosystem services and the economics of the environment. It offers a clear assessment of how market approaches can be used to protect the environment, and illustrates that with a number of cases in which the value of ecosystems has actually been captured by markets.
The book offers a straightforward business economic analysis of conservation issues, eschewing romantic notions about ecosystem preservation in favor of real-world economic solutions. It will be an eye-opening work for professionals, students, and scholars in conservation biology, ecology, environmental economics, environmental policy, and related fields.
Best prices to buy, sell, or rent ISBN 9781559637954
Frequently Asked Questions about Nature and the Marketplace: Capturing The Value Of Ecosystem Services
The price for the book starts from $55.19 on Amazon and is available from 2 sellers at the moment.
If you’re interested in selling back the Nature and the Marketplace: Capturing The Value Of Ecosystem Services book, you can always look up BookScouter for the best deal. BookScouter checks 30+ buyback vendors with a single search and gives you actual information on buyback pricing instantly.
As for the Nature and the Marketplace: Capturing The Value Of Ecosystem Services book, the best buyback offer comes from and is $ for the book in good condition.
The Nature and the Marketplace: Capturing The Value Of Ecosystem Services book is in very low demand now as the rank for the book is 6,320,377 at the moment. A rank of 1,000,000 means the last copy sold approximately a month ago.
Not enough insights yet.