TY - BOOK ID - 17266022 TI - Handbook on the economics of ecosystem services and biodiversity AU - Nunes, Paulo A.L.D. AU - Kumar, Pushpam AU - Dedeurwaerdere, Tom AU - Edward Elgar Publishing PY - 2014 SN - 1781951500 9781781951507 1781951519 9781781951514 PB - Cheltenham ; Northampton Edward Elgar Publishing DB - UniCat KW - Biodiversity conservation KW - Biodiversity KW - Ecosystem management KW - Ecosystem services KW - Economic aspects KW - Ecosystem services. KW - Ecosystem management. KW - Biological diversification KW - Biological diversity KW - Biotic diversity KW - Diversification, Biological KW - Diversity, Biological KW - Biology KW - Biocomplexity KW - Ecological heterogeneity KW - Numbers of species KW - Biotic communities KW - Ecosystems management KW - Applied ecology KW - Environmental management KW - Nature conservation KW - Services, Ecosystem KW - Ecology KW - Economic aspects. KW - Management KW - Services des écosystèmes KW - Ecosystèmes KW - Biodiversité KW - Gestion KW - Aspect économique KW - Conservation KW - Biodiversity conservation - Economic aspects KW - Biodiversity - Economic aspects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:17266022 AB - In recent years, there has been a marked proliferation in the literature on economic approaches to ecosystem management, which has created a subsequent need for real understanding of the scope and the limits of the economic approaches to ecosystems and biodiversity. Within this Handbook, carefully commissioned original contributions from acknowledged experts in the field address the new concepts and their applications, identify knowledge gaps and provide authoritative recommendations. The Handbook offers a wealth of case studies and further: identifies the conceptual underpinnings of the economics of ecosystems and biodiversity, demonstrates new research methodologies and their applications, provides authoritative assessment of the recent results and findings in ecosystems services and biodiversity valuation and accounting, provides the reader with the state of the art of the research on the economics of ecosystem services and biodiversity, provides spatial explicit tools for mapping ecosystem services values for land-use planning, including in the context of business and industry. This authoritative assessment will appeal to researchers and academics at both the advanced undergraduate and post-graduate levels of environmental economics and ecological economics. Policy-makers in government, business and conservation sectors will find much to engage them as the work will prove essential for implementing effective response policies for the management of ecosystems and biodiversity. ER -