
Achieving Environmental Security : Ecosystem Services and Human Welfare.
Title:
Achieving Environmental Security : Ecosystem Services and Human Welfare.
Author:
Liotta, P.H.
ISBN:
9781607505792
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (293 pages)
Contents:
Title -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Contents -- Part I: Defining Ecosystem Services: Big Picture Relevance -- Ecosystem Services and Security: The Fog of Vulnerability -- Human-Triggered Earthquakes and Their Impacts on Human Security -- Mechanisms of Governance of Agro-Ecosystem Services -- A Framework for Ecosystem Services Planning -- Perspectives on the Atmosphere's Role in Sustaining Ecosystem Services -- Evolution of Ecosystem Management for Stewardship of U.S. Military Lands -- Part II: Designing Ecosystem Services -- The Use of Scenario Analysis to Assess Water Ecosystem Services in Response to Future Land Use Change in the Willamette River Basin, Oregon -- Environment and Human Security in the Eastern Mediterranean: Regional Environmentalism in the Reframing of Palestinian-Israeli-Jordanian Relations -- The Western Balkans: Environmental and Human Security -- Expanding Ecosystem Services: Climate Change, Phenology, and the Building of Citizen "Scientists" -- Assessment of the Consequences of Anthropogenic Catastrophes on Ecological-Genetic Environmental Conditions and Human Health -- The Use of Simulation Models and Optimization Techniques in Environmental Management: The Example of Ecosystem Service Trade-Offs -- Part III: Delivering Ecosystem Services -- Ecosystem Services in the Context of Human Development -- Delivering Ecosystem Service Benefits: Science and Innovation for Sustainable Development -- Real-Time Remote Sensing in Support of Ecosystem Services and Sustainability -- Geospatial Technologies and Their Benefit for Ecosystem Services and Human Welfare -- Food Security and Eco-terrorism: Recognizing Vulnerabilities and Protecting Ecosystems -- Delivering the Architecture of Ecosystem Services: Daylight Modeling for a Sustainable Building Design -- Summary -- Ecosystem Services and Human Welfare.
Subject Index -- Author Index.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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