Capitalizing on nature: ecosystems as natural assets

by Barbier, Edward

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Title Statements

Full title :Capitalizing on nature : ecosystems as natural assets / Edward B. Barbier.

Summary

"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"--

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2011.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge, UK
Language:eng
Publication Date:2011.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xiii, 321 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:1139141910, 9781139141918, 9781139145237, 1139145231, 9781139014922, 1139014927, 9781139137904, 1139137905, 128331519X, 9781283315197, 1139140183, 9781139140188, 1107227690, 9781107227699, 9786613315199, 6613315192, 1139139452, 9781139139458, 1139141031, 9781139141031
oclc:ocn760413540
LC Classification:QH75
Dewey Decimal:333.95

1. Ecological scarcity as an economic problem -- 2. Ecosystem services and ecological landscapes -- 3. The basic natural asset model -- 4. Spatial variation in ecosystems -- 5. The open economy -- 6. Ecological collapse -- 7. The way ahead -- 8. Policies in the age of ecological scarcity.