Nature's Services Societal Dependence on Natural Ecosystems |
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Editor:
| Daily, Gretchen Cara |
Contribution by:
| Postel, Sandra Bawa, Kamaljit Kaufman, Les Peterson, Charles H. Carpenter, Stephen Tillman, David Dayton, Paul Alexander, Susan Lagerquist, Kalen Goulder, Larry Matson, Pamela A. Mooney, Harold A. Naylor, Rosamond Vitousek, Peter Harte, John Schneider, Stephen H. Buchmann, Stephen L. |
Foreword by:
| Myers, John Peterson Reichert, Joshua |
ISBN: | 978-1-55963-476-2 |
Publication Date: | Feb 1997 |
Publisher: | Island Press
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Imprint: | Shearwater Books |
Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $52.00 |
Book Description:
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Life itself as well as the entire human economy depends on goods and services provided by earth's natural systems. The processes of cleansing, recycling, and renewal, along with goods such as seafood, forage, and timber, are worth many trillions of dollars annually, and nothing could live without them. Yet growing human impacts on the environment ......
Life itself as well as the entire human economy depends on goods and services provided by earth's natural systems. The processes of cleansing, recycling, and renewal, along with goods such as seafood, forage, and timber, are worth many trillions of dollars annually, and nothing could live without them. Yet growing human impacts on the environment ......