Note: Cover -- Berkshire Essentials Ecosystem Services for Sustainability -- Contents -- About Berkshire Essentials -- Editors, Editorial Advisory Board, and Production Staff -- Introduction: What are Ecosystem Services? -- Air Pollution Indicatorsand Monitoring -- Aquifers -- Biocentrism -- Buffers -- Clean Air Act -- Coastal Management -- Ecosystem Health Indicators -- Externality Valuation -- Fish -- Food Webs -- Forests -- Glaciers -- Global Climate Change -- Grasslands -- Greenhouse Gases -- Insects -- Landscape Architecture -- Medicinal Plants -- Microbial Ecosystem Processes -- Mutualism -- Natural Capital -- Nutrient and Biogeochemical Cycling -- Ocean Resource Management -- Permaculture -- Plant-Animal Interactions -- Recreation, Outdoor -- Resilience -- Rivers -- Soil -- Succession -- True Cost Economics -- Water -- Wetlands -- Index -- Image Credits -- Author Credits -- Back Cover.

Note: Front Cover -- Ecosystem-based Adaptation -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- About the Editors -- Brief Introduction of the Series -- Brief Introduction of the Volume -- Preface -- PART I - INTRODUCTION: CONCEPTUALIZING ECOSYSTEMS -- Chapter 1 Overview of Ecosystem-based Adaptation -- Introduction -- Ecosystem-related Terminologies: Some Common Themes -- Ecosystem-based Adaptation -- About the Book -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 2 Ecosystem Services, Biodiversity, and the Millennium Development Goals -- Introduction -- Ecosystems and Human Well-being -- Sustaining Biodiversity Through an Ecosystem Approach -- Ecosystems and the Achievement of the Millennium Development Goals -- Concluding Remarks -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 3 The Role of Ecosystems in Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction -- Introduction -- Ecosystems and Disaster Risk Reduction -- Ecosystems and Climate Change Adaptation -- Benefits of Applying an Ecosystem-based Approach to Climate Change Adaptation and DRR -- The Way Forward -- Acknowledgments -- References -- PART II - CASE EXAMPLES: EXEMPLIFYING ECOSYSTEMS -- Chapter 4 Cooperative Management of Mangrove Ecosystems in India -- Introduction -- Role of Mangroves in Climate Change Adaptation -- Mangroves Management in India -- Community-based Mangrove Management at Pichavaram -- Managing the ''Man'' in the Mangroves in the Indian Sundarbans -- Lessons Learnt and Way Forward -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Chapter 5 Innovative Approach of Ecosystem-based Adaptation in Coastal Bangladesh -- Introduction -- Climate Change Trend and Adaptation Concerns -- Climate Change Impact and Ecosystem-based Adaptation Approaches -- Country Approach Toward Ecosystem-based Climate-resilient Development -- Coastal Cyclone and Storm Surge Risk Reduction and Adaptation. , Policy and Strategies for Creating Ecosystem-based Adaptation for Livelihood Opportunities -- Concluding Remarks -- Note -- References -- Chapter 6 Watershed Approach to Ecosystem Management -- Introduction -- The Watershed Approach -- Importance of Watersheds to Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction -- Case Studies on Communities and Watershed Management -- Incentive Schemes for Watershed Management -- Concluding Remarks -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 7 Understanding Adaptation Practices in Arid Land Ecosystem -- Introduction -- Distribution of Arid Land Ecosystems -- Features of Arid Ecosystems -- Major Challenges of Arid Land Ecosystem -- Good Practices Followed in Arid Ecosystem: Insight from Two Case Studies -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 8 Redefining Urban Ecosystems -- Introduction -- Urban Ecosystem -- Impact of Climate Change on Urban Ecosystem -- Urban Ecosystem Management -- Case Studies: Revive and Regenerate -- Meeting Challenges of Changing Urban Ecosystem -- Acknowledgments -- References -- PART III - TOOLS: MEASURING ECOSYSTEMS -- Chapter 9 Benchmarking Ecosystem Conditions -- Introduction -- Ecological Indicators -- Conceptual Approaches to Ecosystem Assessment -- Case Study on Participatory Ecosystem Resilience Assessment -- Concluding Remarks -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 10 Spatial Relationship and Ecosystem Management -- Introduction -- The Georeview Model -- Application of Georeview -- Potentials and Challenges of Georeview -- References -- Chapter 11 Valuing Ecosystem Services -- Background -- The Economics of Ecosystem Services -- Motivations for Economic Valuation -- Economic Valuation Methods -- Challenges to Economic Valuation -- Concluding Remarks -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 12 Governance in a Changing Climate: An Ecosystem Perspective. , Introduction -- Key Characteristics of Ecosystem Governance: Adaptive and Collaborative -- Examples of Approaches to Ecosystem Governance -- Ecosystem Governance in a Changing Climate -- Toward Better Ecosystem Governance in a Changing Climate -- Acknowledgments -- References -- PART IV - THE WAY AHEAD: SUSTAINING ECOSYSTEMS -- Chapter 13 Challenges and the Way Ahead in Ecosystem-based Adaptation -- Introduction -- Key Observations from Concepts of EBA -- Summary of Case Examples of EBA -- Potentials and Challenges of EBA Tools -- Future of EBA -- Acknowledgments -- Reference.

Note: Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of contributors -- List of acronyms and abbreviations -- Foreword -- 1 Ecosystem services in the twenty-first century -- Part I Ecosystem services concepts and frameworks - introduction -- 2 Ecosystem services in theory and practice -- 3 Defining and measuring ecosystem services -- Briefing Note 3.1: Ecosystem functions: a critical perspective -- 4 The links between biodiversity and ecosystem services -- Briefing Note 4.1: Service providing units -- 5 Ecosystem structures and processes: characterising natural capital stocks and flows -- 6 The beneficiary perspective: benefits and beyond -- 7 A social-ecological perspective on ecosystem services -- Briefing Note 7.1: Transdisciplinarity -- Briefing Note 7.2: Drivers of change for ecosystem services -- 8 Concepts and methods in ecosystem services valuation -- 9 A critical perspective -- 10 Economics and ecosystem services: a positive contribution to environmental management -- Part II Ecosystem services: methods and techniques for decision support - introduction -- 11 Frameworks for ecosystem assessments -- Briefing Note 11.1: Place-based assessment of small islands' ecosystem services -- 12 Modelling ecosystem services -- 13 Indicators for ecosystem services -- 14 Using futures-thinking to support ecosystem assessments -- 15 Mapping ecosystem services -- 16 A practical approach to mapping of ecosystems and ecosystem services using remote sensing -- Briefing Note 16.1: Remote sensing -- 17 An introduction to ecosystem accounting -- 18 Accounting for ecosystem services in business -- 19 Valuing preferences for ecosystem-related goods and services -- 20 Ecological economics and ecosystem services -- 21 Stakeholder participation in ecosystem service decision-making -- 22 Deliberative and non-monetary valuation. , 23 The 'balance sheet' approach within adaptive management for ecosystem services -- Briefing Note 23.1: Ecosystem services and justice -- Briefing Note 23.2: Ecosystem services and ethics -- 24 Securing nature and people: can we replicate and scale success? -- Part III Ecosystem services in an applied context - introduction -- 25 Ecosystems services: provisioning -- 26 Managing regulating services for sustainability -- 27 Managing cultural ecosystem services for sustainability -- Briefing Note 27.1: Ecosystem services and spirituality -- 28 Towards effective ecosystem services assessment in marine and coastal management -- 29 Freshwater -- 30 Forest-related ecosystem services -- 31 Drylands -- 32 Ecosystem services supplied by Mediterranean Basin ecosystems -- 33 Ecosystem services provided by soil life -- 34 The importance of grasslands in providing ecosystem services: opportunities for poverty alleviation -- Briefing Note 34.1: Ecosystem services and grasslands in America -- Briefing Note 34.2: Ecosystem services and grasslands in Australia -- 35 Cultivated lands -- 36 Ecosystem services provided by urban green infrastructure -- Part IV Ecosystem services: linking and informing agendas - introduction -- 37 A policy perspective on mainstreaming ecosystem services: opportunities and risks -- 38 Ecosystem services and climate change -- 39 Can ecosystem services contribute to food security? -- 40 Ecosystem services and water security -- 41 What are the links between poverty and ecosystem services? -- 42 Ecosystem services and health -- 43 Ecosystem services and the greening of business -- 44 Payments for ecosystem services -- 45 Maximizing biodiversity and ecosystem service benefits in conservation decision-making -- 46 Bridging the gap between ecosystem services and landscape planning. , 47 Spatial and landscape planning: a place for ecosystem services -- Briefing Note 47.1: Including ecosystem services in impact assessment: challenges and opportunities -- 48 An institutional perspective -- 49 The use of ecosystem services knowledge in policy-making: drawing lessons and adjusting expectations -- Part V Conclusion -- 50 On the changing relationship between ecosystem services continuance and sustainability -- 51 Ecosystem services: where is the discipline heading? -- 52 Ecosystem services: never waste the opportunity offered by a good crisis -- Index.