Natural Capital : Theory and Practice of Mapping Ecosystem Services.
Material type: TextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press USA - OSO, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Description: 1 online resource (395 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780191621420Subject(s): Biodiversity conservation | Ecosystem management | Ecosystem services | Environmental policy | Human ecologyGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Natural Capital : Theory and Practice of Mapping Ecosystem ServicesDDC classification: 333.95 LOC classification: QH541.15.E25 -- N38 2011ebOnline resources: Click to ViewIntro -- CONTENTS -- List of contributors -- Foreword -- How to read this book -- Acknowledgments -- SECTION I: A VISION FOR ECOSYSTEM SERVICES IN DECISIONS -- 1: Mainstreaming natural capital into decisions -- 1.1 Mainstreaming ecosystem services into decisions -- 1.2 What is new today that makes us think we can succeed? -- 1.3 Moving from theory to implementation -- 1.4 Using ecosystem production functions to map and assess natural capital -- 1.5 Roadmap to the book -- Box 1.1: The everyday meaning of natural capital to the world's rural poor ( M. Sanjayan ) -- 1.6 Open questions and future directions -- Box 1.2: Sorting among options for a more sustainable world ( Stephen R. Carpenter ) -- 1.7 A general theory of change -- References -- 2: Interpreting and estimating the value of ecosystem services -- 2.1 Introduction: why is valuing nature important? -- 2.2 Philosophical issues: values, rights, and decision-making -- 2.3 Measuring ecosystem values -- 2.4 Some case studies -- Box 2.1: Designing coastal protection based on the valuation of natural coastal ecosystems ( R. K. Turner ) -- 2.5 Conclusions -- References -- 3: Assessing multiple ecosystem services: an integrated tool for the real world -- 3.1 Today's decision-making: the problem with incomplete balance sheets -- 3.2 The decision-making revolution -- 3.3 The ecological production function approach -- 3.4 InVEST: mapping and valuing ecosystem services with ecological production functions and economic valuation -- Box 3.1: Unsung ecosystem service heroes: seed dispersal and pest control ( Liba Pejchar ) -- 3.5 Future directions and open questions -- References -- SECTION II: MULTI-TIERED MODELS FOR ECOSYSTEM SERVICES -- 4: Water supply as an ecosystem service for hydropower and irrigation -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Tier 1 water supply model.
Box 4.1 Can we apply our simple model where groundwater really matters? ( Heather Tallis, Yukuan Wang, and Driss Ennaanay ) -- 4.3 Tier 1 valuation -- 4.4 Limitations of the tier 1 water yield models -- 4.5 Tier 2 water supply model -- 4.6 Tier 2 valuation model -- 4.7 Sensitivity analyses and testing of tier 1 water supply models -- 4.8 Next steps -- References -- 5: Valuing land cover impact on storm peak mitigation -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Tier 1 biophysical model -- 5.3 Tier 1 valuation -- Box 5.1: Integrated flood risk management: gaining ecosystem services and increasing revenue ( David Harrison ) -- 5.4 Tier 2 supply and use model -- 5.5 Tier 2 valuation -- 5.6 Limitations and next steps -- References -- 6: Retention of nutrients and sediment by vegetation -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Tier 1 biophysical models -- 6.3 Tier 1 economic valuation -- 6.4 Tier 2 biophysical models -- 6.5 Tier 2 economic valuation models -- 6.6 Constraints and limitations -- 6.7 Testing tier 1 models -- Box 6.1: China forestry programs take aim at more than floods ( Christine Tam ) -- 6.8 Next steps -- References -- 7: Terrestrial carbon sequestration and storage -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Tier 1 supply model -- Box 7.1: Noel Kempff case study: capturing carbon finance ( Bill Stanley and Nicole Virgilio ) -- 7.3 Tier 1 valuation model: an avoided economic damage approach -- Box 7.2: Valuing the Arc: measuring and monitoring forest carbon for offsetting ( Andrew R. Marshall and P. K. T. Munishi ) -- 7.4 Tier 2 supply model -- 7.5 Tier 2 valuation: an application of the avoided economic damage approach -- 7.6 Limitations and next steps -- References -- 8: The provisioning value of timber and non-timber forest products -- 8.1 Introduction.
Box 8.1: Wildlife conservation, corridor restoration, and community incentives: a paradigm from the Terai Arc landscape ( Eric Wikramanayake, Rajendra Gurung, and Eric Dinerstein ) -- 8.2 The supply, use, and value of forests' provisioning service in tier 1 -- 8.3 The supply, use, and value of forests' provisioning service in tier 2 -- 8.4 Limitations and next steps -- References -- 9: Provisioning and regulatory ecosystem service values in agriculture -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Defining agricultural scenarios -- 9.3 Tier 1 -- 9.4 Tier 2 -- 9.5 Mapping the impacts of agriculture on important ecological processes -- 9.6 Uncertainty -- 9.7 Limitations and next steps -- References -- 10: Crop pollination services -- 10.1 Introduction -- Box 10.1: Assessing the monetary value of global crop pollination services ( Nicola Gallai, Bernard E. Vaissière, Simon G. Potts, and Jean-Michel Salles ) -- 10.2 Tier 1 supply model -- 10.3 Tier 1 farm abundance map -- 10.4 Tier 1 valuation model -- 10.5 Tier 2 supply model -- 10.6 Tier 2 farm abundance map -- 10.7 Tier 2 valuation model -- 10.8 Sensitivity analysis and model validation -- 10.9 Limitations and next steps -- Box 10.2: Pollination services: beyond agriculture ( Berry Brosi ) -- References -- 11: Nature-based tourism and recreation -- 11.1 Nature-based tourism and recreation values in context -- 11.2 Tier 1 tourism supply and use model -- 11.3 Tier 2 tourism supply and use model -- 11.4 Tier 1 and 2 use value -- Box 11.1: How the economics of tourism justifies forest protection in Amazonian Peru ( Christopher Kirkby, Renzo Giudice, Brett Day, Kerry Turner, Bridaldo Silveira Soares-Filho, Hermann Oliveira-Rodrigues, and Douglas W. Yu ) -- 11.5 State-of-the-art tourism value -- 11.6 Limitations and next steps -- References -- 12: Cultural services and non-use values -- 12.1 Introduction.
Box 12.1: The sacred geography of Kawagebo ( Jianzhong Ma and Christine Tam ) -- 12.2 Methods: integrating cultural services and non-use values into decisions -- Box 12.2: People of color and love of nature ( Hazel Wong ) -- 12.3 Limitations and next steps -- References -- 13: Terrestrial biodiversity -- 13.1 Introduction -- 13.2 Tier 1: habitat-quality and rarity model -- Box 13.1: Integrating biodiversity and agriculture: a success story in South Asia ( Jai Ranganathan and Gretchen C. Daily ) -- 13.3 Tier 2 models of terrestrial biodiversity -- 13.4 Tier 1 and 2 examples with sensitivity analysis -- 13.5 Limitations and next steps -- References -- SECTION III: EXTENSIONS, APPLICATIONS, AND THE NEXT GENERATION OF ECOSYSTEM SERVICE ASSESSMENTS -- 14: Putting ecosystem service models to work: conservation, management, and trade-offs -- 14.1 Introduction -- 14.2 Applying ecosystem service and biodiversity models in management and conservation contexts -- Box 14.1: Plight of a people ( Neil Hannahs ) -- 14.3 Extending the frontier: challenges facing ecosystem management -- References -- 15: How much information do managers need? The sensitivity of ecosystem service decisions to model complexity -- 15.1 Introduction -- Box 15.1: How much data do we need to support our models: a case study using biodiversity mapping and conservation planning ( Craig Groves and Edward Game ) -- 15.2 Testing agreement between simple and complex ecosystem service models -- 15.3 Future directions and open questions -- References -- 16: Poverty and the distribution of ecosystem services -- 16.1 Introduction -- 16.2 Ecosystem services and the poor -- Box 16.1: Can the natural capital of agroecosystems provide a pathway out of poverty? ( C. Peter Timmer ) -- Box 16.2 Poverty and ecosystem service mapping at work in Kenya (Norbert Henninger and Florence Landsberg).
16.3 Mapping poverty and ecosystem services -- 16.4 Case studies -- 16.5 Including institutions: the way forward -- References -- 17: Ecosystem service assessments for marine conservation -- 17.1 Introduction -- 17.2 Ecosystem services provided by marine environments -- Box 17.1: Nonlinear wave attenuation and the economic value of mangrove land-use choices ( Edward B. Barbier ) -- Box 17.2: Valuation of coral reefs in the Caribbean ( Emily Cooper and Lauretta Burke ) -- 17.3 Mapping and modeling the flow of marine ecosystem services: a case study of Puget Sound -- 17.4 Future directions -- References -- 18: Modeling the impacts of climate change on ecosystem services -- 18.1 Introduction -- 18.2 Previous analyses of climate-driven changes in ecosystem services -- 18.3 Using ecosystem-service models to evaluate the impact of climate change on natural and human systems -- Box 18.1: An estimate of the effects of climate change on global agricultural ecosystem services ( David Lobell ) -- 18.4 Climate impacts on ecosystem-services in the Willamette Basin of Oregon -- 18.5 Discussion and conclusions -- References -- 19: Incorporating ecosystem services in decisions -- 19.1 Introduction -- 19.2 Putting ecosystem services on the agenda -- Box 19.1: An assessment of ecosystem services helps a paper and packaging business respond to emerging risks ( Craig Hanson ) -- 19.3 Instruments for sustaining and enhancing ecosystem services -- 19.4 Choosing the right instrument -- 19.5 Building stronger organization -- Box 19.2: Cultural evolution as an enabling condition for the use of ecosystem services in decisions ( Paul R. Ehrlich, Lee D. Ross, and Gretchen C. Daily ) -- 19.6 Future directions -- References -- Index.
The editors have assembled the world's leading scientists in the fields of conservation, policy analysis, and resource economics to provide the most intensive and best technical analyses of ecosystem services to date.
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