Conservation aims to preserve species and ecosystem services. If rare species contribute
little to ecosystem services, yet are those most in need of preservation, tradeoffs may exist …

Acting to demarcate the spatial limits of decision-making processes, socio-political
boundaries are an inevitable part of a human-dominated world. Rarely coincident with …

Human well-being relies critically on ecosystem services provided by nature. Examples
include water and air quality regulation, nutrient cycling and decomposition, plant pollination …

In the Total Economic Value (TEV) framework, ecosystems may generate output values (the
values generated in the current state of the ecosystem, for example food production, climate …

Numbers of non–indigenous species—species introduced from elsewhere—are increasing
rapidly worldwide, causing both environmental and economic damage. Rigorous …

Frequent drying of ponded water, and support of unique, highly specialized assemblages of
often rare species, characterize temporary wetlands, such as vernal pools, gilgais, and …

The ecosystem services concept is used to make explicit the diverse benefits ecosystems
provide to people, with the goal of improving assessment and, ultimately, decision-making …

An updated and passionate second edition of a foundational book. How did environmental
law first emerge in the United States? Why has it evolved in the ways that it has? And what …

Careful explanation of key economic concepts in the context of environmental problems
makes this book an ideal introduction to the study of environmental economics. Coverage of …

This paper examines an experiment conducted to explore a voluntary incentive mechanism,
the agglomeration bonus, designed to protect endangered species and biodiversity by …