Ecosystem Services : Charting a Path to Sustainability.
by
Summaries, Interdisciplinary Research Team.
Title
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Ecosystem Services : Charting a Path to Sustainability.
Author
:
Summaries, Interdisciplinary Research Team.
ISBN
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9780309252430
Personal Author
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Summaries, Interdisciplinary Research Team.
Physical Description
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1 online resource (135 pages)
Contents
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Front Matter -- The National Academies Keck *Futures Initiative* -- Preface -- Contents -- Conference Summary -- IDR Team Summary 1: How do ecosystem services affect infectious and chronic diseases? -- IDR Team Summary 2: Identify what resources can be produced renewably or recovered by developing intense technologies that can be applied on a massive scale. -- IDR Team Summary 3: Develop social and technical capabilities to respond to abrupt changes in ecosystem services. -- IDR Team Summary 4: Design agricultural and aquacultural systems that provide food security while maintaining the full set of ecosystem services needed from landscapes and seascapes. -- IDR Team Summary 5: Design production systems for ecosystem services that improve human outcomes related to food and nutrition. -- IDR Team Summary 6: Develop appropriate methods to accurately value natural capital and ecosystem services. -- IDR Team Summary 7: Design a federal policy to maintain or improve natural capital and ecosystem services within the United States, including measuring and documenting the effectiveness of the policy. -- IDR Team Summary 8: Design a system for international trade that accounts for impacts on ecosystem services. -- IDR Team Summary 9: Develop a program that increases the American public's appreciation of the basic principles of ecosystem services. -- Appendixes -- List of Ecosystem Services Podcast Tutorials -- Agenda -- Participant List.
Local Note
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
Subject Term
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Ecosystem services -- Congresses.
Sustainable development -- Congresses.
Genre
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Electronic books.
Added Author
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Conference, Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center, Irvine, California, November 10-11, 2011.
Conference.
Center, Arnold and Mabel Beckman.
Electronic Access
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Library | Material Type | Item Barcode | Shelf Number | Status |
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IYTE Library | E-Book | 1336794-1001 | QH541.15 .E267 -- N38 2012 EB | Ebrary E-Books |