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Chapter 23. Ecosystem Service Practices
The relation between the concept of ecosystem services and practice is a moving target: a dynamic field of operation, experimentation, discourse and c...
Chapter 13. Ecosystem Services Governance: Managing Complexity?
Ecosystem governance deals with the management of not only the ecosystem, but also of related social aspects such as decision making, social interacti...
Chapter 14. Ecosystem Service Assessments: Science or Pragmatism?
This chapter challenges the capability of the ecosystem service to obtain sustainable development beyond awareness raising, based on the urgency to de...
Chapter 5. Inquiring into the Governance of Ecosystem Services: An Introduction
The present chapter develops a brief, introductory account of some of the more stringent perspectives and proposals on how to inquire into the governa...
Chapter 16. The Natural Relation between Biodiversity and Public Health: An Ecosystem Services Perspective
Internationally, the importance of coordinated efforts to protect both biodiversity and public health is increasingly being recognized. We address the...
Chapter 1. Inclusive Ecosystem Services Valuation
This chapter discusses the concept of ecosystem services valuation. It argues that beyond monetary valuation, ES valuation should also take into accou...
Chapter 15. Negotiated Complexity in Ecosystem Services Science and Policy Making
It’s a long way from scientific knowledge to concrete policy action. Along the way many decisions have to be made. A lot of these decisions relate t...
Chapter 18. CICES Going Local: Ecosystem Services Classification Adapted for a Highly Populated Country
Multiple classification systems for ecosystem services (ES) make comparison and integration between studies and assessments very difficult. With the f...
Social Science Perspectives
In this book the authors examine the contribution of social scientists to the topics of health and environment. They present diverse perspectives on c...