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  • Wetlands: Market and Intervention Failures

    Four case studies

    de Kerry Turner, Tom Jones ...
    Series series Environmental and Resource Economics Set
    Wetlands are vital and valuable resources, both as rich and unique wildlife habitats, and for the functions they fulfil - providing flood and sediment control and coastal protection, as carbon sinks and pollution buffers, for their role in storing and recycling nutrients, as well as for their recreational value. Too often, however, their true value has been overlooked or underestimated and they ... Leer más

    $77.99 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Ecosystem Services

    Edición de Marion Potschin, Roy Haines-Young, Robert Fish, R. Kerry Turner ...
    Series series Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks
    The idea that nature provides services to people is one of the most powerful concepts to have emerged over the last two decades. It is shaping our understanding of the role that biodiverse ecosystems play in the environment and their benefits for humankind. As a result, there is a growing interest in operational and methodological issues surrounding ecosystem services amongst environmental ... Leer más

    $91.99 USD

  • Managing a Sea

    The Ecological Economics of the Baltic

    Edición de Ing-Marie Gren, Kerry Turner, Fredrik Wulff ...
    Marine resources and fish stocks are now high on the international and economic research agendas, and the management of highly complex marine ecosystems is increasingly important. The task is complicated by the number of interlinked factors to be taken into account, such as social impacts, drainage systems, marine currents and the ecosystems involved.This interdisciplinary volume presents a ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • Perspectives on Integrated Coastal Zone Management

    Edición de Wim Salomons, Luiz D. de Lacerda, S. Ramachandran, Kerry Turner ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    All coastal areas are facing a growing range of stresses and shocks, the scale of which now poses threats to the resilience of both human and environmental coastal systems. Responsible agencies are seeking better ways of managing the causes and consequences of the environmental change process in coastal zones. This volume discusses the basic principles underpinning a more integrated approach to ... Leer más

    $188.99 USD

  • Valuing Ecosystem Services

    The Case of Multi-functional Wetlands

    de Stavros Georgiou, R. Kerry Turner ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Ecosystem Services
    Ecosystem services can be broadly defined as the aspects of ecosystems that provide benefits to people. This book provides guidance on the valuation of ecosystem services, using the case of multifunctional wetlands to illustrate and make recommendations regarding the methods and techniques that can be applied to appraise management options. It provides a review of ecosystem service valuation ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • Coastal Zones Ecosystem Services

    From Science to Values and Decision Making

    Edición de R. Kerry Turner, Marije Schaafsma ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book applies the ‘ecosystem services’ framework to coastal environments, showing how it could facilitate an adaptive management strategy. The contributors describe a decision support system (DSS) based on the 3 Ps – pluralism, pragmatism and precaution – that leads to a more flexible, ‘learn by doing’ approach to the stewardship of coastal environments. The book lays out a “Balance Sheets ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

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  • Floating Offshore Wind Farms

    Edición de Vicente Diaz-Casas, Laura Castro-Santos ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    This book provides an overview of floating offshore wind farms and focuses on the economic aspects of this renewable-energy technology. It presents economic maps demonstrating the main costs, and explores various important aspects of floating offshore wind farms. It examines topics including offshore wind turbines, floating offshore wind platforms, mooring and anchoring, as well as offshore ... Leer más

    $152.99 USD

  • Sustaining River Ecosystems and Water Resources

    de Ellen Wohl ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This work is designed to broaden the scope with which many people regard a river. Rivers are commonly regarded from a very simplistic perspective as conduits for downstream flows of water. In this context, it may be considered acceptable and necessary to engineer the channel to either facilitate such flows (e.g., channelization, levees) or limit flows and store water (e.g., water supply reservoirs ... Leer más

    $53.99 USD

  • 1491 (Second Edition)

    New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

    de Charles C. Mann ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A groundbreaking work of science, history, and archaeology that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of Columbus in 1492—from “a remarkably engaging writer” (The New York Times Book Review).Contrary to what so many Americans learn in school, the pre-Columbian Indians were not sparsely settled in a pristine wilderness; rather, there were huge ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Linking Conservation and Poverty Reduction

    Landscapes, People and Power

    de Robert Fisher, Stewart Maginnis, William Jackson, Edmund Barrow, Sally Jeanrenaud ...
    'This book aims to inspire the conservation community not to regard poverty reduction as someone else's job but to take responsibility for it as part of ecosystem restoration. Though no solutions are perfect,the text and examples given offer encouraging and useful guidance.' Gill Shepherd, poverty and landscapes thematic leader, IUCN Forest Conservation Programme. 'This book could be the catalyst ... Leer más

    $40.99 USD

  • Water Is...

    The Meaning of Water

    de Nina Munteanu ...
    In this fascinating meditation on water, internationally published limnologist, Nina Munteanu, draws inspiration from some of the world’s greatest thinkers, artists and scientists, and a lifetime dedicated to water, into a spectacular gift for hydrophilics.Part history, part science and part philosophy and spirituality, "Water Is..." combines personal journey with scientific discovery that ... Leer más

    $6.79 USD

  • Snake Oil

    How Fracking's False Promise of Plenty Imperils Our Future

    de Richard Heinberg ...
    The rapid spread of hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") has temporarily boosted US natural gas and oil production... and sparked a massive environmental backlash in communities across the country. The fossil fuel industry is trying to sell fracking as the biggest energy development of the century, with slick promises of American energy independence and benefits to local economies. SNAKE OIL casts a ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD