1st Edition
Valuation of Regulating Services of Ecosystems Methodology and Applications
Part 1: Concepts 1. An introduction to the valuation of regulating services Pushpam Kumar and Michael D. Wood 2. Valuing Ecosystem Services: Benefits, values, space and time Brendan Fisher, Ian Bateman and R. Kerry Turner 3. Ecosystem services: managing trade-offs between provisioning and regulating services Thomas Elmqvist, Magnus Tuvendal, Jagdish Krishnaswamy and Kristoffer Hylander 4. The "Ecosystem Service Framework": A Critical Assessment R. David Simpson Part 2: Methodological applications 5. Evaluating the economic impacts of water harvesting in Burkina Faso Rodney B.W. Smith, Laura A. Hildreth and Kimsey Savadago 6. Accounting for regulating services Karl-Göran Mäler, Sara Aniyar and Åsa Jansson 7. Valuation of Ecosystem Services in Coastal Ecosystems: Asian and European perspectives Premachandra Wattage 8. Valuing the Storm Protection Services of the Mangroves: Methodological and Data challenges Saudamini Das 9. European Forests and Carbon Sequestration Services: An Economic Assessment of Climate Change Impacts Helen Ding, Paulo A.L.D. Nunes and Sonja Teelucksingh 10. Valuing the Services of Coral Reef Systems for Sustainable Coastal Management: A Case Study of the Gulf of Kachchh, India Arun M. Dixit, Lalit Kumar, Pushpam Kumar and Kinjal Pathak Part 3: Synthesis 11. Institutions and Ecosystem Functions: The Case of Keti Bunder, Pakistan John M. Gowdy and Aneel Salman 12. Valuation of Ecosystem Services: methods, opportunities and policy implications Nicolas Kosoy, Makiko Yashiro, Carlota Molinero and Anantha Duraiappah 13. Conclusions on the valuation of regulating services: current status and future perspectives Pushpam Kumar and Michael D. Wood
Biography
Pushpam Kumar is Reader in Environmental Economics at the University of Liverpool, UK.
Michael D. Wood is an environmental scientist at the University of Liverpool, UK.
