Our uncommon heritage : biodiversity change, ecosystem services, and human wellbeing /
By: Perrings, Charles.
Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014Description: xxxix, 522 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.Content type: text $2 rdacontent | text | still image | cartographic image Media type: unmediated $2 rdamedia | unmediated Carrier type: volume $2 rdacarrier | volumeISBN: 9781107043732 (hardback); 9781107043732:; 1107043735 (hardback); 9781107618985 (paperback); 1107618983 (paperback).Subject(s): Ecology -- Economic aspects | Biodiversity -- Economic aspects | Ecosystem services | Environmental economicsDDC classification: 333.9516Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Standard Loan | ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 333.9516 PER (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0092439 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Biodiversity change -- Part I. Diagnosing the Biodiversity Change Problem. 2. Biodiversity in the modern world ; 3. Biodiversity and ecosystem services ; 4. Biodiversity loss, sustainability, and stability ; 5. Biodiversity externalities and public goods ; 6. Poverty alleviation and biodiversity change ; 7. Globalization: trade, aid, and the dispersal of species -- Part II. The Search for Solutions. 8. Getting the prognosis right ; 9. Understanding what is lost ; 10. Managing risk, uncertainty, and irreversibility in biodiversity change ; 11. Conservation incentives and payments for ecosystem services ; 12. Paying for international environmental public goods ; 13. Strengthening the biodiversity-related multilateral agreements ; 14. Genetic resources and the poor ; 15. Redirecting biodiversity change.