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1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 332 pages)
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digital, PDF file(s)
ISBN:
9781139174329
Content:
This volume reports key findings of the Biodiversity Program of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences' Beijer Institute. The program brought together a number of eminent ecologists and economists to consider the nature and significance of the biodiversity problem. In encouraging collaborative work between these closely related disciplines it sought to shed new light on the concept of diversity; the implications of biological diversity for the functioning of ecosystems; the driving forces behind biodiversity loss; and the options for promoting biodiversity conservation. The results of the program are surprising. It is shown that the core of the biodiversity problem is a loss of ecosystem resilience and the insurance it provides against the uncertain environmental effects of economic and population growth. This is as much a local as a global problem, implying that biodiversity conservation offers benefits that are as much local as global. The solutions as well as the causes of biodiversity loss lie in incentives to local users
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
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Diversity funcitons
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Biodiversity in the functioning of ecosystems : an ecological synthesis
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Scale and biodiversity in coastal and estuarine ecosystems
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Wetland valuation : three case studies
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Ecological economy : notes on harvest and growth
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Biodiversity loss and the economics of discontinuous change in semiarid rangelands
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Economic growth and the environment
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International regulation of biodiversity decline : optional policy and evolutionary product
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Policies to control tropical deforestation : trade interventions versus transfers
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On biodiversity concerns
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Unanswered questions
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521471787
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521588669
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9780521471787
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9781139174329
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