num_pages: 224
description: In recent years, scientists have begun to focus on the idea that healthy, functioning ecosystems provide essential services to human populations, ranging from water purification to food and medicine to climate regulation. Lacking a healthy environment, these services would have to be provided through mechanical means, at a tremendous economic and social cost. Nature and the Marketplace examines the controversial proposition that markets should be designed to capture the value of those services. Written by an economist with a background in business, it evaluates the real prospects for various of nature's marketable services to “turn profits” at levels that exceed the profits expected from alternative, ecologically destructive, business activities. The 
language: English
title: Nature and the Marketplace: Capturing The Value Of Ecosystem Services
titlecomplete: Nature and the Marketplace: Capturing The Value Of Ecosystem Services
ratings_count: 13
publisher: Island Press