Wratten / Sandhu / Cullen Ecosystem Services in Agricultural and Urban Landscapes

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-118-50624-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten, E-Book

Ecosystem services are the resources and processes supplied by natural ecosystems which benefit humankind (for example, pollination of crops by insects, or water filtration by wetlands). They underpin life on earth, provide major inputs to many economic sectors and support our lifestyles. Agricultural and urban areas are by far the largest users of ecosystems and their services and (for the first time) this book explores the role that ecosystem services play in these managed environments. The book also explores methods of evaluating ecosystem services, and discusses how these services can be maintained and enhanced in our farmlands and cities. This book will be useful to students and researchers from a variety of fields, including applied ecology, environmental economics, agriculture and forestry, and also to local and regional planners and policy makers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wratten, Stephen

Sandhu, Harpinder

Cullen, Ross

Costanza, Robert

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contributors xi
Reviewers xiv
Foreword xv
Introduction xvi
Steve Wratten, Harpinder Sandhu, Ross Cullen and RobertCostanza
Part A: Scene Setting 1
1 Ecosystem Services in Farmland and Cities 3
Harpinder Sandhu and Steve Wratten
2 Ecological Processes, Functions and Ecosystem Services:Inextricable Linkages between Wetlands and Agricultural Systems16
Onil Banerjee, Neville D. Crossman and Rudolf S. deGroot
3 Key Ideas and Concepts from Economics for Understanding theRoles and Value of Ecosystem Services 28
Pamela Kaval and Ramesh Baskaran
Part B: Ecosystem Services in Three Settings 43
4 Viticulture can be Modified to Provide Multiple EcosystemServices 45
Sofia Orre-Gordon, Marco Jacometti, Jean Tompkins and SteveWratten
5 Aquaculture and Ecosystem Services: Reframing theEnvironmental and Social Debate 58
Corinne Baulcomb
6 Urban Landscapes and Ecosystem Services 83
Jürgen Breuste, Dagmar Haase and Thomas Elmqvist
Part C: Measuring and Monitoring Ecosystem Services atMultiple Levels 105
7 Scale-dependent Ecosystem Service 107
Yangjian Zhang, Claus Holzapfel and Xiaoyong Yuan
8 Experimental Assessment of Ecosystem Services in Agriculture122
Harpinder Sandhu, John Porter and Steve Wratten
Part D: Designing Ecological Systems to Deliver EcosystemServices 137
9 Towards Multifunctional Agricultural Landscapes for the UpperMidwest Region of the USA 139
Nicholas Jordan and Keith Douglass Warner
10 Supply Chain Management and the Delivery of EcosystemsServices in Manufacturing 157
Mary Haropoulou, Clive Smallman and Jack Radford
11 Market-based Instruments and Ecosystem Services: Opportunityand Experience to Date 178
Stuart M. Whitten and Anthea Coggan
Epilogue: Equitable and Sustainable Systems 194
Steve Wratten, Harpinder Sandhu, Ross Cullen and RobertCostanza
Index 196

Über Autor(innen)

Steve Wratten is Professor of Ecology at LincolnUniversity, New Zealand and Deputy Director of the Bio-ProtectionResearch Centre there, one of the country's Centres ofResearch Excellence. He has studied or worked at the universitiesof Reading, Glasgow, London, Cambridge and Southampton, UK. Heholds three doctorates and is an elected Fellow of the RoyalSociety of New Zealand. His research focuses on evaluating andenhancing ecosystem services in agriculture, especially thebiological control of pests, pollination, and below-soilprocesses.
Harpinder Sandhu is a Research Fellow in the School ofthe Environment, Flinders University, South Australia. His researchfocuses on ecosystem services in managed landscapes. Harpinder alsoworks on poverty-environment interactions in developing countrieswith their implications for equitable and sustainable development.He is also interested in land use and land cover change and itsimpact on biodiversity and ecosystem services.
Ross Cullen has taught and researched at LincolnUniversity, New Zealand since 1991, as Professor of ResourceEconomics. He is an Editor of the Australian Journal ofAgricultural and Resource Economics. His current researchfocuses on management and evaluation of biodiversity projects,ecosystem services in agriculture and forestry, and publicperceptions of the state of the environment.
Robert Costanza is Professor and Chair in Public Policyat the Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian NationalUniversity, Canberra, Australia. His transdisciplinary researchintegrates the study of humans and the rest of nature to addressresearch, policy and management issues at multiple time and spacescales, from small watersheds to global systems. He is co-founderand past-president of the International Society for EcologicalEconomics, and was chief editor of the society's journal,Ecological Economics from its inception in 1989 until 2002.He is founding editor-in-chief of Solutions(www.thesolutionsjournal.org) a new hybrid academic/popularjournal.