The law and policy of ecosystem services /

The law and policy of ecosystem services / J. B. Ruhl, Steven E. Kraft, Christopher L. Lant.

Publisher's description: The Law and Policy of Ecosystem Services is the first comprehensive exploration of the status and future of natural capital and ecosystem services in American law and policy. The book develops a framework for thinking about ecosystem services across their ecologic, geog...

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Main Author: Ruhl, J. B.
Other Authors: Kraft, Steven E., Lant, C. L.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington : Island Press, [2007]
Subjects:
Environmental economics.
Ecosystem management.
Environmental protection > Decision making.
Biodiversity conservation > Law and legislation.
Table of Contents:
  • PART I : THE CONTEXT OF ECOSYSTEM SERVICES: Ecology
  • Geography
  • Economics
  • PART II : THE STATUS OF ECOSYSTEM SERVICES IN LAW AND POLICY: Property rights
  • Regulation
  • Social norms
  • PART III : EMPIRICAL CASE STUDIES IN ECOSYSTEM SERVICES LAW AND POLICY: An odyssey on 6,000 acres : pre-1670 to 2006
  • Water : blue, green, and virtual
  • The Conservation Reserve Program 1985-2006 : from soil erosion to ecosystem services
  • The National Conservation Buffer Initiative : ecosystem services from riparian buffers
  • From amber to green : the common agricultural policy of the European Union
  • Ecosystem services from an agricultural watershed : the case of Big Creek
  • Wetland mitigation banking : an ecosystem market without ecosystem services
  • Ecosystem services and pollution trading I : a sulfurous success and a nutritious failure
  • Ecosystem services and pollution trading II : carbon trading to ameliorate global warming
  • PART IV : DESIGNING NEW LAW AND POLICY FOR ECOSYSTEM SERVICES: Drivers and models
  • Trade-offs and transitions
  • Instruments and institutions.

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