Ecosystem services and global trade of natural resources
Subtitle: ecology, economics, and policies
By: edited by Thomas Köellner
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780415485838; 9780203816639
Subjects: Ecosystem services; Ecology; Government policy; Natural resources; Commercial policy; International trade; Foreign trade regulation; Economic aspects; Ecosystem management
Description: Intends to show how the increase in international trade of biophysical commodities can damage global ecosystems and their services, how those damages can be accounted for in Life Cycle Assessment and Green National Accounting and how instruments in the public and private sector can help to achieve a more sustainable global trade.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.