Ecosystems and Nature : Economics, Science and Policy

by Turner, R. Kerry; Button, Kenneth; Nijkamp, Peter

• ISBN13: 9781858987934
• ISBN10: 1858987938
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-08-01
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Pub

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	ix
Series Preface	xiii
Kenneth Button
Peter Nijkamp
Introduction	xvii
R. Kerry Turner
Kenneth Button
Peter Nijkamp
PART I BIODIVERSITY: BASIC SCIENCE AND ECONOMICS
`Resilience and Stability of Ecological Systems', Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, 4, 1--23	3	(23)
C.S. Holling
`Biological Diversity, Ecosystems, and the Human Scale', Ecological Applications, 6 (4), November, 1018--24	26	(7)
Carl Folke
C.S. Holling
Charles Perrings
`Biodiversity and the Productivity and Stability of Ecosystems', Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 11 (9), September, 372--7	33	(6)
Kris H. Johnson
Kristiina A. Vogt
Heidi J. Clark
Oswald J. Schmitz
Daniel J. Vogt
`The Future of Biodiversity', Science, 269, 21 July, 347--50	39	(4)
Stuart L. Pimm
Gareth J. Russell
John L. gittleman
Thomas M. Brooks
`Economic Growth, Carrying Capacity, and the Environment', Science, 268, 28 April, 520--21	43	(2)
Kenneth Arrow
Bert Bolin
Robert Costanza
Partha Dasgupta
Carl Folke
C.S. Holling
Bengt-Owe Jansson
Simon Levin
Karl-GoUran MaUler
Charles Perrings
David Pimentel
`Threshold Effects and Incentives for the Conservation of Biodiversity', Environmental and Resource Economics, 4 (1), February, 13--28	45	(16)
Charles Perrings
David Pearce
`The Economics of Extinction Revisited and Revised: A Generalised Framework for the Analysis of the Problems of Endangered Species and Biodiversity Losses', Oxford Economic Papers, 46, Supplementary Issue, October, 800--821	61	(26)
Timothy M. Swanson
PART II VALUING ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONS AND SERVICES: DEMONSTRATING THE VALUE OF NATURAL BIOLOGICAL CAPITAL
A Overviews
`Issues in Ecosystem Valuation: Improving Information for Decision Making', Ecological Economics, 14 (2), August, 73--90	87	(18)
Gail Bingham
Richard Bishop
Michael Brody
Daniel Bromley
Edwin (Toby) Clark
William Cooper
Robert Costanza
Thomas Hale
Gregory Hayden
Stephen Kellert
Richard Norgaard
Bryan Norton
John Payne
Clifford Russell
Glenn Suter
`Ecological Economic Modeling and Valuation of Ecosystems', Ecological Economics, 14 (2), August, 143--59	105	(17)
N. Bockstael
R. Costanza
I. Strand
W. Boynton
K. Bell
L. Wainger
`The Value of Biodiversity: Markets, Society, and Ecosystems', Land Economics, 73 (1), February, 25--41	122	(19)
John M. Gowdy
B Tropical and Temperate Forests
`A Method for the Economic Valuation of Non-Timber Tropical Forest Products', Economic Botany, 47 (3), 220--33	141	(14)
Ricardo Godoy
Ruben Lubowski
Anil Markandya
`Total Economic Value of Forests in Mexico', Ambio, 24 (5), August, 286--96	155	(11)
W. Neil Adger
Katrina Brown
Raffaello Cervigni
Dominic Moran
`On the Value of the Condition of a Forest Stock', Land Economics, 61 (3), August, 244--54	166	(13)
Thomas D. Crocker
C Temperate and Tropical Wetlands
`Valuing Environmental Functions: Tropical Wetlands', Land Economics, 70 (2), May, 155--73	179	(19)
Edward B. Barbier
`Valuation and Management of Wetland Ecosystems', Ecological Economics, 1 (4), December, 335--61	198	(27)
Robert Costanza
Stephen C. Farber
Judith Maxwell
`Renewable and Nonrenewable Resource Theory Applied to Coastal Agriculture, Forest, Wetland, and Fishery Linkages', Marine Resource Economics, 9 (4), Winter, 291--310	225	(22)
Stephen K. Swallow
D Marine Resources
`Pressures, Trends, and Impacts in Coastal Zones: Interactions Between Socioeconomic and Natural Systems', Environmental Management, 20 (2), 159--73	247	(15)
R.K. Turner
S. Subak
W.N. Adger
`Modelling Economy--Ecology Linkages in Mangroves: Economic Evidence for Promoting Conservation in Bintuni Bay, Indonesia', Ecological Economics, 10 (3), August, 233--47	262	(15)
H. Jack Ruitenbeek
`Total Economic Values of Increasing Gray Whale Populations: Results from a Contingent Valuation Survey of Visitors and Households', Marine Resource Economics, 9, 275--86	277	(14)
John B. Loomis
Douglas M. Larson
E Grasslands and Agriculture
`Plain Tales from the Grasslands: Extraction, Value and Utilization of Biomass in royal Bardia National Park, Nepal', Biodiversity and Conservation, 6 (1), January, 59--74	291	(16)
Katrina Brown
`The Non-Market Value of the Swedish Agricultural Landscape', European Review of Agricultural Economics, 19, 351--64	307	(18)
Lars Drake
PART III CAPTURING THE VALUE OF ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONS AND SERVICES
A Property Rights, Institutions and Policy Instruments
`Third-World Debt and Tropical Deforestation', Ecological Economics, 12 (2), February, 107--23	325	(17)
James R. Kahn
Judith A. McDonald
`The Rainforest Supply Price: A Tool for Evaluating Rainforest Conservation Expenditures', Ecological Economics, 6 (1), July, 57--78	342	(22)
H. Jack Ruitenbeek
`Institutions, Governance and Incentives in Common Property Regimes for African Rangelands', Environmental and Resource Economics, 6, 99--118	364	(20)
Brent M. Swallow
Daniel W. Bromley
`Conserving Biodiversity as if People Matter: A Case Study from India', Ambio, 21 (3), May, 266--70	384	(5)
Madhav Gadgil
`Estimating the Supply of Conservation Goods in Britain: A Comparison of the Financial Efficiency of Two Policy Instruments', Land Economics, 72 (3), August, 313--25	389	(16)
Martin Whitby
Caroline Saunders
B Conservation Management Priorities, Safe Minimum Standards and Opportunity Costs
`Global Biodiversity Priorities: A Cost-Effectiveness Index for Investments', Global Environmental Change, 6 (2), June, 103--19	405	(17)
Dominic Moran
David Pearce
Anouk Wendelaar
`Biodiversity, Resilience and the Control of Ecological-Economic Systems: The Case of Fire-Driven Rangelands', Ecological Economics, 22 (1), July, 73--83	422	(11)
Charles Perrings
Brian Walker
`How Useful are Environmental Safety Standards in Economics?--The Example of Safe Minimum Standards for Protection of Species', Biodiversity and Conservation, 2 (2), April, 168--81	433	(14)
Andreas Hohl
Clement A. Tisdell
`Biodiversity Conservation--At What Cost? A Study of Households in the Vicinity of Madagascar's Mantadia National Park', Ambio, 26 (3), May, 180--84	447	(5)
Priya Shyamsundar
Randall Kramer
`Opportunity Costs of Preserving Coastal Wetlands: A Case Study of a Recreational Housing Development', Land Economics, 61 (1), February, 1--9	452	(11)
Sandra S. Batie
Carl C. Mabbs-Zeno
PART IV ETHICS
`Valuing Wildlands', Environmental Ethics, 7, Spring, 23--48	463	(26)
Holmes Rolston
`Evaluating Ecosystem States: Two Competing Paradigms', Ecological Economics, 14 (2), August, 113--27	489	(15)
Bryan G. Norton
`Harmony and Pathology', Ecological Economics, 15 (2), November, 141--4	504	(4)
Talbot Page
`The Value of Biodiversity', Ambio, 20 (2), April, 64--8	508	(5)
Alan Randall
Name Index	513