Research Catalog

Title

Valuing ecosystem services : toward better environmental decision-making / Committee on Assessing and Valuing the Services of Aquatic and Related Terrestrial Ecosystems, Water Science and Technology Board, Division on Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, [2005], ©2005.

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Additional Authors

National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Assessing and Valuing the Services of Aquatic and Related Terrestrial Ecosystems.

Description

xii, 277 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm

Subjects

• Ecology > economics
• Environmental policy > Decision making
• Aquatic ecology > Economic aspects
• Environmental protection > Decision making
• Biotic communities > Valuation
• Costs and Cost Analysis
• Environment
• Ecosystem

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Additional Formats (note)

• Issued also electronically via World Wide Web.

Contents

1. Introduction -- 2. The meaning of value and use of economic valuation in the environmental policy decision-making process -- 3. Aquatic and related terrestrial ecosystems -- 4. Methods of nonmarket valuation -- 5. Translating ecosystem functions to the value of ecosystem services : case studies -- 6. Judgment, uncertainty, and valuation -- 7. Ecosystem valuation : synthesis and future directions -- App. A. Summary of related NRC reports -- App. B. Household production function models -- App. C. Production function models -- App. D. Committee and staff biographical information.

ISBN

• 030909318X (book)
• 0309545862 (PDF) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2005924663

OCLC

• ocm59166276
• SCSB-5173581

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries