Valuation of Regulating Services of Ecosystems : Methodology and Applications (Hardcover)

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-Goran Maler, Sara Aniyar and Asa 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