Restoring Natural Capital: Science, Business, and PracticeIsland Press, 8 ביוני 2007 - 384 עמודים How can environmental degradation be stopped? How can it be reversed? And how can the damage already done be repaired? The authors of this volume argue that a two-pronged approach is needed: reducing demand for ecosystem goods and services and better management of them, coupled with an increase in supply through environmental restoration. Restoring Natural Capital brings together economists and ecologists, theoreticians, practitioners, policy makers, and scientists from the developed and developing worlds to consider the costs and benefits of repairing ecosystem goods and services in natural and socioecological systems. It examines the business and practice of restoring natural capital, and seeks to establish common ground between economists and ecologists with respect to the restoration of degraded ecosystems and landscapes and the still broader task of restoring natural capital. The book focuses on developing strategies that can achieve the best outcomes in the shortest amount of time as it: • considers conceptual and theoretical issues from both an economic and ecological perspective • examines specific strategies to foster the restoration of natural capital and offers a synthesis and a vision of the way forward Nineteen case studies from around the world illustrate challenges and achievements in setting targets, refining approaches to finding and implementing restoration projects, and using restoration of natural capital as an economic opportunity. Throughout, contributors make the case that the restoration of natural capital requires close collaboration among scientists from across disciplines as well as local people, and when successfully executed represents a practical, realistic, and essential tool for achieving lasting sustainable development. |
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A Biodiversity Intactness Index | 44 |
Experiences and Lessons | 55 |
Landscape Function as a Target for Restoring Natural Capital | 76 |
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activities adaptive agricultural alien plant analysis approach assessment bark benefits biodiversity biological biomass carbon carbon sequestration chapter communal areas conservation consumption costs decision degradation diversity Eastern Cape ecological economics ecological restoration ecologists economic economists ecosys ecosystem functioning ecosystem services effects environment environmental example farming flows forest framework funding fynbos genetic grazing habitat harvesting hectares impacts incentives increase initial investment Karoo land landowners livestock loss Madagascar mainstreaming manufactured capital mechanisms ment Millennium Ecosystem Assessment native natural capital restoration natural resource plantations population potential processes production Ramakrishnan rangelands recovery reduced region restoration ecology restoration of natural restoration projects restoring natural capital result Rooibos Sacramento River seed social society soil sources South Africa species stakeholders stocks strategies sustainable thicket threshold timber tion trees valuation vegetation watershed wetland wildlife Wildwood woodland