02536nam a22002537a 4500 SNU 20230411221226.0 230411b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9781597267755 9781559634755 1 304.2 DAI Daily, Gretchen Cara Nature's Services : Societal Dependence on Natural Ecosystems / edited by Gretchen Cara Daily Island Press : Washington, DC, 1997. xx, 393 p. Life itself as well as the entire human economy depends on goods and services provided by earth's natural systems. The processes of cleansing, recycling, and renewal, along with goods such as seafood, forage, and timber, are worth many trillions of dollars annually, and nothing could live without them. Yet growing human impacts on the environment are profoundly disrupting the functioning of natural systems and imperiling the delivery of these services. 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 including Paul R. Ehrlich, Donald Kennedy, Pamela A. Matson, Robert Costanza, Gary Paul Nabhan, Jane Lubchenco, Sandra Postel, and Norman Myers present a detailed synthesis of our current understanding of a suite of ecosystem services and a preliminary assessment of their economic value. Chapters consider: major services including climate regulation, soil fertility, pollination, and pest control philosophical and economic issues of valuation case studies of specific ecosystems and services implication of recent findings and steps that must be taken to address the most pressing concerns 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. Ecosystem management NATURE Life Sciences Nature--Effect of human beings on Daily, Gretchen Cara https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/snuin/detail.action?docID=4505035 eBook ddc ER 60156 60156 0 0 ddc 0 1 SNUL SNUL REF 2023-04-11 ProQuest 0 304.2 DAI ER118 2023-04-11 00:00:00 https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/snuin/detail.action?docID=4505035 2023-04-11 ER eBook