Nature and the Marketplace
Subtitle: Capturing The Value Of Ecosystem Services
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Island Press
Published: October 1, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9781559637961
Subjects: Alternative & renewable energy industries; Capitalist or free market economies; Environmental economics; Human ecology; Water Supply; Product management; Environmental aspects; Science; Business / Economics / Finance; Social responsibility of business; Science/Mathematics; Social responsibility of busin; Development - Sustainable Development; Environmental Conservation & Protection - General; Nature / Natural Resources; Life Sciences - Ecology; Green marketing
First sentence: The quality of our lives-indeed, even our existence-depends on the functioning of natural systems.
Description: "Nature and the Marketplace examines the real prospects for nature's marketable services to "turn profits" at levels that exceed the profits expected from alternative, ecologically destructive business activities. As an accessible but rigorous introduction to market-based conservation, Nature and the Marketplace will be essential reading for professionals, students, and scholars in conservation biology, ecology, environmental economics, environmental policy, and related flelds."--BOOK JACKET.