Managing Human-dominated Ecosystems: Proceedings of the Symposium at the Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Missouri, 26-29 March 1998Victoria Catherine Hollowell, Missouri Botanical Garden How do you place an economic value on biodiversity? How does the trend toward high-tech industries affect pressure on environmental resources, at home and abroad? How can we build an environmentally sustainable future that makes sense economically? An international group of ecologists and economists gathered at the Missouri Botanical Garden in 1998 to discuss ecosystem services and the economy. Examples are drawn from New York Citys Catskill and Croton Watersheds, Australian savannas, Latin American cities and forests, European industrial systems, African river basins, and more. |
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Sustainable Habitation in the Savannas | 34 |
A Note on the Interaction Between Environmental | 65 |
Valuing Ecosystem Services | 85 |
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agricultural allocation benefits biodiversity loss biological biomass biosphere capital carbon carbon sequestration catchment Chichilnisky Climate Change competitive conservation consumption contingent valuation costs deforestation developing countries diversity downstream dynamics E. O. Wilson Ecological Economics economic value economists ecosys ecosystem functioning ecosystem services ecotourism editors effects efficient emissions environment environmental markets environmental policy erosion estimated example externalities Gallopín global grazing harvesting human hydropower impact important incentives income increase industrial industrial ecology input Institute Knowledge Revolution knowledge-intensive Kyoto Protocol land Latin America lead livestock ment million Naeem natural resources Nature's Services nomic optimal Pareto efficient plant pollution population potential Press problems production property rights regimes region result savannas scenario sectors social society soil South species studies technologies timber tion trade tropical forests upland upstream valuation Washington watershed watershed protection wetlands World Bank