خدمات اکوسیستمی برای پایداری (کتاب‌های ضروری برکشر جلد ۶)

Ecosystem Services for Sustainability covers the many benefits provided by things we too often take for granted: the aquifers and glaciers that provide our drinking water, the forests and oceans that store excess carbon dioxide, the microscopic organisms that enrich the soil in which we grow our food, and the insects that play a crucial role in maintaining the global food supply. A team of well-known authors, writing for the nonexpert reader, looks at how nature provides for humankind, and how humankind can, in return, protect valuable and limited natural resources. The authors also explore practical ways of managing ecosystem services and integrating them into our global economy. Ecosystem Services for Sustainability, a Berkshire Essential, covers the many benefits provided by things we too often take for the aquifers and glaciers that provide our drinking water, the forests and oceans that store excess carbon dioxide, the microscopic organisms that enrich the soil in which we grow our food, and the insects that play a crucial role in maintaining the global food supply. A team of well-known authors, writing for the nonexpert reader, looks at how nature provides for humankind, and how humankind can, in return, protect valuable and limited natural resources. The authors also explore practical ways of managing ecosystem services and integrating them into our global economy. The series draws material from the massive Bershire Encyclopedia of Sustainability to provide slender and inexpensive volumes focusing on specific topics for teachers and students. The 33 articles here examine benefits people obtain from nature, which are called ecosystem services for people who cannot think outside the framework of commerce. The topics include air pollution indicators and monitoring, fish, glaciers, medicinal plants, nutrient and biogeochemical cycling, permaculture, plant-animal interaction, true cost economics, and wetlands This book explores the variety of benefits that ecosystems provide. It discusses how nature provides for humankind, and how humankind can protect those valuable natural resources. The volume also attempts to manage and value ecosystem services by integrating them into our global economy and practicing "biocentrism."