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Ecosystem Services : Charting a Path to Sustainability.
Title:
Ecosystem Services : Charting a Path to Sustainability.
Author:
Summaries, Interdisciplinary Research Team.
ISBN:
9780309252430
Physical Description:
1 online resource (135 pages)
Contents:
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:
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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