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About – Robert Costanza's webpage. In today’s ‘anthropocene’ world, human impacts on ecological life support systems are increasingly complex and far-reaching. At the same time, maintaining living standards in developed nations and reducing poverty in developing nations, places increasing demands on the planet’s life support functions.
Robert Costanza is Professor of Ecological Economics at the Institute for Global Prosperity (IGP) at University College London (UCL). ... Costanza’s transformative ‘whole systems’ approach integrates systems ecology, ecological economics, ecosystem services, landscape ecology, ecological modeling, ecological design, energy analysis, ...
1 de may. de 2014 · 1. Introduction. Ecosystems provide a range of services that are of fundamental importance to human well-being, health, livelihoods, and survival (Costanza et al., 1997, Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MEA), 2005, TEEB Foundations, 2010, TEEB Synthesis, 2010).Interest in ecosystem services in both the research and policy communities has grown rapidly (Braat and de Groot, 2012, Costanza and ...
supporting services, such as soil formation and nu-trient cycling; and cultural services, such as recre-ational,spiritual,andothernonmaterialbenefits.1–4 Onthesupplyside,ecosystemsareexperiencingse-rious degradation in regard to their capability of providing services. At the same time, the demand for ecosystem services is rapidly increasing ...
Robert Costanza briefly present various methods of environmental valuation, and talks about the changes in the global value of ecosystem services. He then introduces the major ecosystem services, and how different methods of valuation affect the preferred policies to address environmental issues. Comment from our editors:
Robert Costanza. Institute for Global Prosperity, University College London. Verified email at ucl.ac.uk - Homepage. Ecological Economics Landscape Ecology Ecosystem Services Environmental Science Ecology. Articles Cited by Public access Co-authors. ... Ecosystem services 1 (1), 50-61, 2012. 2915: 2012:
1 de dic. de 2017 · Section snippets Ecosystem services ‘Ecosystem services’ (ES) are the ecological characteristics, functions, or processes that directly or indirectly contribute to human wellbeing: that is, the benefits that people derive from functioning ecosystems (Costanza et al., 1997; Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MEA), 2005). This simple and seemingly straightforward definition has been the ...
