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Ecosystem Services and Global Trade of Natural Resources - Ecology, Economics and Policies (Paperback, New)
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Ecosystem Services and Global Trade of Natural Resources - Ecology, Economics and Policies (Paperback, New)
Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics
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The utilization of natural resources to satisfy worldwide growing
consumption of goods and services has severe ecological
consequences. Aside from the projected doubling of food consumption
in the next fifty years, the growing trade of biofuels and other
commodities is a global challenge as the economic activities in the
primary sector (i.e. mining, fisheries, aquaculture, forestry and
agriculture) can damage biodiversity and ecosystem services. This
should be taken into account in the decision-making affecting the
global value chains linking consumer, retailer, processor, and
producer in the North and the South. To cover the topic of
ecosystem services and global trade this book is organized into
four major parts. Part 1 gives the theoretical framework from an
ecological, economic and political perspectives. Part 2 explores
how internationally traded biophysical commodities from
agriculture, forestry and fisheries translates into a virtual flow
of land, freshwater, and marine ecosystems. Part 3 describes how
two widely used accounting tools (i.e., Life Cycle Assessment and
Green National Accounts) deal with international aspects of
ecosystem services, and Part 4 shows how instruments like
labelling, bans, or payments for ecosystem services in the private
and public sector can influence trade patterns and the management
of ecosystem services. This collection is a valuable contribution
to the global change science dealing with ecosystem services. It
illustrates the consequences of international trade on global
ecosystem services and provides an overview of accounting tools and
of market-based policy instruments to address negative and positive
externalities. The book is certainly innovative, because it brings
together research findings from distinct disciplines especially
Industrial Ecology and Ecosystem Sciences, as well as Environmental
Economics and Political Science.
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