Nature's Services Nature's Services Nature's Services

Societal Dependence on Natural Ecosystems Societal Dependence on Natural

By Gretchen Daily (Editor); Sandra Postel (Contribution by); Kamaljit Bawa (Contribution by); Les Kaufman (Contribution by); Charles H. Peterson (Contribution by); Stephen Carpenter (Contribution by); David Tillman (Contribution by); Paul Dayton (Contribution by); Susan Alexander (Contribution by); Kalen Lagerquist (Contribution by); Larry Goulder (Contribution by); Pamela A. Matson (Contribution by); Harold A. Mooney (Contribution by); Rosamond Naylor (Contribution by); Peter Vitousek (Contribution by); John Harte (Contribution by); John Peterson Myers (Foreword by); Joshua Reichert (Foreword by); Stephen H. Schneider (Contribution by); Stephen L. Buchmann (Contribution by)
(Island Press, Paperback, 9781559634762, 412pp.)

Publication Date: February 1997

Categories: Environmental Science, Life Sciences - Ecology, Human Geography

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Nature's Services brings together world-renowned scientists from a variety of disciplines to examine the character and value of ecosystem services, the damage that has been done to them, and the consequent implications for human society. Contributors present a detailed synthesis of our current understanding of a suite of ecosystem services and a preliminary assessment of their economic value. Nature's Services represents one of the first efforts by scientists to provide an overview of the many benefits and services that nature offers to people and the extent to which we are all vitally dependent on those services. The book enhances our understanding of the value of the natural systems that surround us and can play an essential role in encouraging greater efforts to protect the earth's basic life-support systems before it is too late.
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