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Climate Change Impacts on Tropical Forests in Central America - An ecosystem service perspective (Hardcover)
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Climate Change Impacts on Tropical Forests in Central America - An ecosystem service perspective (Hardcover)
Series: The Earthscan Forest Library
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The loss of biodiversity is a major environmental problem in nearly
every terrestrial ecosystem on Earth. This loss is accelerating
driven by climate change, as well as by other causes including
agricultural exploitation, fragmentation and degradation triggered
by land use changes. The crucial issue under debate is the impact
on the welfare of current and future population, and the role of
humans in the exploitation of natural resources. This is of
particular importance in Central America, which it is amongst the
richest and most threatened biodiversity regions on the Earth, and
where the loss of ecosystems strongly affects its socio-economic
vulnerability. This book addresses the impacts of climate and
land-use change on tropical forest ecosystems in this important
region, and assesses the expected economic costs if no policy
action is taken, under different future scenarios and for different
geographical scales. This innovative collection utilises both
theoretical approaches and empirical results to provide a
conceptual framework for an integrated analysis of climate and
land-use change impacts on forest ecosystems and related economic
effects, offering insight into the complex relationship between
ecosystems and benefits to humans. This important contribution to
forest ecosystems and climate change provides invaluable reading
for students and scholars in the fields of environmental and
ecological economics, environmental science and forestry, natural
resource management, agriculture and climate change.
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