Format:
1 online resource (297 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781849712514
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9780203141700
Series Statement:
TEEB - the Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity Series
Content:
This book is a further key output of TEEB study (The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity). It provides important new evidence of growing corporate concern about biodiversity loss and offers examples of how some leading companies are taking action to conserve biodiversity and to restore ecosystems
Note:
Intro -- The Economics of Ecosytems and Biodiversity in Business and Enterprise -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword from H.R.H. The Prince of Wales -- List of Figures, Tables and Boxes -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- List of Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Introduction to Biodiversity and Ecosystems for Business -- Background to this book -- Approach, structure and contents -- Biodiversity and ecosystems in a changing world -- From major trends to business values -- Chapter 2 Business Impacts and Dependence on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services -- Introduction -- Biodiversity, ecosystems and ecosystem services -- Impacts and dependence on biodiversity and ecosystem services across sectors -- Biodiversity and ecosystem risks and opportunities for business -- Conclusion -- Annex 2.1: Case studies: cotton and the Aral Sea and timber in China -- Chapter 3 Measuring and Reporting Biodiversity and Ecosystem Impacts and Dependence -- Introduction -- Designing BES information management and accounting systems -- Incorporating BES in capital investment decisions -- Collecting and using information at the product level -- Collecting and using information at the group level -- Conclusions and recommendations -- Chapter 4 Scaling Down Biodiversity and Ecosystem Risks to Business -- Introduction: Biodiversity as business risk -- Integrating biodiversity and ecosystem services into corporate risk management -- Tools for managing biodiversity and ecosystem risks -- Strategies for scaling down biodiversity and ecosystem risk -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5 Increasing Biodiversity Business Opportunities -- Introduction: biodiversity as a business opportunity -- Biodiversity and ecosystem services as a value proposition -- Emerging markets for biodiversity and ecosystem services
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Tools to support markets for biodiversity and ecosystem services -- Challenges to building biodiversity business -- What is to be done? -- Chapter 6 Business, Biodiversity and Development -- Introduction -- The business contribution to development -- Biodiversity and ecosystem services and the business role in development -- Linking biodiversity, ecosystem services and development -- Risks and challenges -- Enablers and recommendations -- Chapter 7 Summary and Conclusion -- Summary of findings -- An agenda for action by business and other stakeholders -- Annex 7.1: Comparison of selected business, biodiversity and ecosystem declarations, initiatives, guidelines and tools -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Bishop, Joshua The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity in Business and Enterprise Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2012 ISBN 9781849712514
Language:
English
Keywords:
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URL:
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