Valuing ecosystem services : toward better environmental decision-making /
"Nutrient recycling, habitat for plants and animals, flood control, and water supply are among the many beneficial services provided by aquatic ecosystems. In making decisions about human activities, such as draining a wetland for a housing development, it is essential to consider both the valu...
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Washington, D.C. :
National Academies Press,
©2005.
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Taula de continguts:
- Executive summary
- Introduction
- The meaning of value and use of economic valuation in the environmental policy decision-making process
- Aquatic and related terrestrial ecosystems
- Methods of nonmarket valuation
- Translating ecosystem functions to the value of ecosystem services : case studies
- Judgement, uncertainty, and valuation
- Ecosystem valuation : synthesis and future directions
- Appendix A: Summary of related NRC reports
- Appendix B: Household production function models
- Appendix C: Production function models.