Research Catalog

Title

Ecosystems and human well-being : policy responses : findings of the Responses Working Group of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment / edited by Kanchan Chopra ... [et al.].

Publication

Washington, DC : Island Press, c2005.

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Additional Authors

• Chopra, Kanchan Ratna.
• Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (Program). Responses Working Group.

Description

xxi, 621 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.); 28 cm.

Summary

Response options and strategies -- MA conceptual framework -- Typology of responses -- Assessing responses -- Recognizing uncertainties in evaluating responses -- Biodiversity -- Food and ecosystems -- Freshwater ecosystem services -- Wood, fuelwood, and non-wood forest products -- Nutrient management -- Waste management, processing, and detoxification -- Flood and storm control -- Ecosystems and vector-borne disease control -- Climate change -- Cultural services -- Integrated responses -- Consequences and options for human health -- Consequences of responses of human well-being and poverty reduction -- Choosing responses -- Implications for achieving the millennium development goals.

Series Statement

The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment series ; v. 3

Uniform Title

Millennium Ecosystem Assessment series ; v. 3.

Subject

• Ecological assessment (Biology)
• Ecology
• Ecosystem
• Ecosystem management
• Environment
• Environmental Health
• Environmental management
• Environmental policy
• Human ecology
• Public Policy

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Framework for evaluating responses -- Assessment of past and current responses -- Synthesis and lessons learned.

ISBN

• 1559632690 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 1559632704 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2005017304

OCLC

60697098

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library