Keywords:
Environmental policy.
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Electronic books.
Description / Table of Contents:
Human well-being is dependent upon 'ecosystem services' provided by nature for free, such as water and air purification, fisheries, timber and nutrient cycling. The world's poor are most at risk from the continuing loss of biodiversity and ecosystems, as they are the ones that are most reliant on the ecosystem services that are being degraded. It is against this background that the TEEB (The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity) project was set up in 2007 and led by the United Nations Environment Programme to provide a comprehensive global assessment of these issues. This volume represents the key output, providing a detailed review of the fundamental ecological and economic principles of valuing ecosystem services and biodiversity.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (385 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781136344602
Series Statement:
TEEB - the Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity Series
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=981958
DDC:
333.95
Language:
English
Note:
Cover -- The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity in Local and Regional Policy and Management -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures, Tables and Boxes -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- List of acronyms and abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I: The Opportunity -- 1 The value of nature for local development -- 1.1 Local development's biggest asset -- 1.2 A potential not fully recognized -- 1.3 What can local policy makers do? -- 1.4 Ecosystem services: an overview -- 1.5 Who is affected? -- 1.6 The natural relation between biodiversity and public health -- 1.7 Linking local policy, ecosystem services and climate change -- Part II: The Tools -- 2. Conceptual frameworks for considering the benefits of nature -- 2.1 How to assess nature's benefits: a stepwise approach -- 2.2 An overview of the frameworks -- 2.3 Action points -- 3. Tools for valuation and appraisal of ecosystem services in policy making -- 3.1 The rationale for valuing ecosystem services and biodiversity -- 3.2 Valuation methods -- 3.3 Decision support frameworks: cost-benefit analysis -- 3.4 Alternative decision support tools and frameworks -- 3.5 Conclusions and action points -- Part III: Practical Applications:Planning and Management -- 4. Ecosystem services in cities and public management -- 4.1 Benefits of including ecosystem services in public management -- 4.2 Pressure and potential of urban areas -- 4.3 Options for local managers -- 4.4 Integrated management: for responsible public management -- 4.5 Action points for local governments -- 5. Ecosystem services in rural areas and natural resource management -- 5.1 Agriculture -- 5.2 Fisheries and wetlands -- 5.3 Forests and watershed management -- 5.4 Managing ecosystems for tourism -- 5.5 Ecosystem resilience and disaster mitigation.
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5.6 Assessing and integrating ecosystem services in natural resource management -- 6. Spatial planning and environmental assessments -- 6.1 Challenges for spatial planning -- 6.2 Integrating ecosystems services in spatial planning -- 6.3 Integrating biodiversity: making the connections -- 6.4 Potential for progress: action points for local policy -- 6.5 Integrating ecosystems and biodiversity in environmental assessment -- 6.6 When and how to integrate ecosystem services in EIA and SEA -- 6.7 Lessons learned from practice -- 7. Ecosystem services and protected areas -- 7.1 Why are protected areas important in local policy? -- 7.2 Getting involved in local conservation management -- 7.3 Reasons for assessing ecosystems services of protected areas -- 7.4 Action points -- Part IV: Practical Applications:Creating Markets -- 8. Payments for ecosystem services -- 8.1 What PES is and how it works -- 8.2 Designing PES schemes -- 8.3 Making PES schemes work locally -- 9. Creating markets to conserve biodiversity: conservation banking -- 9.1 The role of local policy -- 9.2 Offsetting -- 9.3 Conservation banking -- 9.4 How to make it work: preconditions for successful conservation banking -- 10. Certification and labelling -- 10.1 Incentives for conserving ecosystem services and biodiversity -- 10.2 How do certification and labelling work? -- 10.3 The role of local policy in certification -- 10.4 Potential pitfalls and challenges of labelling and certification -- 10.5 Action points: local policy makers engaging in certification -- Part V: Conclusions -- 11. Making your natural capital work for local development -- 11.1 Ecosystem services in local policy: some key lessons -- 11.2 Applying the TEEB stepwise approach to appraising nature's benefits -- 11.3 Making ecosystem services count: dealing with conflicts -- 11.4 It is better to err on the side of caution.
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Appendix: Practical advice, FAQs, tools and databases -- References -- Glossary -- Index.
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