Nature's Services
Subtitle: Societal Dependence On Natural Ecosystems
Contributors: John Peterson Myers (Foreword); Joshua Reichert (Foreword); Sandra Postel (Contributor); Kamaljit Bawa (Contributor); Les Kaufman (Contributor); Charles Peterson (Contributor); Stephen Carpenter (Contributor); David Tillman (Contributor); Paul Dayton (Contributor); Susan Alexander (Contributor); Kalen Lagerquist (Contributor); Larry Goulder (Contributor); Pamela Matson (Contributor); Harold Mooney (Contributor); Rosamond Naylor (Contributor); Peter Vitousek (Contributor); John Harte (Contributor); Gretchen Daily (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Island Press
Published: February 1, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 412
ISBN-13: 9781559634755
Subjects: Environmental Economics; Management of land & natural resources; Natural Resources; Environmental Science; Natural Resources Management; Nature; Environmental Studies; Life Sciences - Ecology - Ecosystems; Nature/Ecology; Human ecology; Human Geography; Science / Zoology; Biotic communities; Economic aspects; Effect of human beings on
First sentence: Ecosystem services are the conditions and processes through which natural ecosystems, and the species that make them up, sustain and fulfill human life.