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

By:

Barbier, Edward

Material type: Text

TextCambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011Description: xiii, 321 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780521189279 (pbk.)
0521189276 (pbk.)
9781107007277 (hbk.)
1107007275 (hbk.)

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DDC classification:

333.95 BAR 23 010049

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Table of contents

Contents:

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.

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"--

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore	333.95 BAR 010049 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		010049

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"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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