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The new economy of nature : the quest to make conservation profitable

"Earth's ecosystems - forests, wetlands, coral reefs, and the like - are among humanity's most precious assets, offering such vital services as climate control and water purification. So why are they being rapidly destroyed? A major reason is that protecting them has been seen as largely a charitable venture, and philanthropy isn't up to the job. Increasing numbers of environmentally minded people are therefore trying to harness a more potent force - self-interest - to preserve our environmental endowment. Theirs is the quest portrayed in The New Economy of Nature. In this timely and provocative book, Gretchen Daily, one of the world's leading ecologists, and Katherine Ellison, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, give us an informative look at a new "new economy" that recognizes the full value of natural systems and the potential profits in protecting them."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©2002
Island Press : Shearwater Books, Washington, DC, ©2002
260 pages ; 24 cm
9781559639453, 9781559631549, 1559639458, 1559631546
48691387
The wealth of nature
Katoomba and the stratosphere
How to make carbon charismatic
New York : how to put a watershed to work
Napa, California : how a town can live with a river and not get soaked
Vancouver Island : project Snark
King County, Washington : the art of the deal
Down under : how to make a numbat turn a profit
Costa Rica : paying mother nature to multitask
Teresopolis : the spinning motor
The birds, the bees, and the biodiversity crisis
The revolution in the wings