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ECOSYSTEMS AND HUMAN WELL-BEING: MULTISCALE ASSESSMENTS
FINDINGS OF THE SUB-GLOBAL ASSESSMENTS WORKING GROUP |
| By: |
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment |
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Paperback |
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£56.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1559631864 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781559631860 |
| Publisher: |
ISLAND PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
26 August, 2005 |
| Pages: |
412 |
| Description: |
One of the major innovations of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment is that it incorporates a series of local assessments in a global portrait of the planet's health. This book provides students and policymakers with a baseline and framework for ongoing assessments of ecosystem and human well-being on a variety of scales around the world. |
| Synopsis: |
One of the major innovations of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment is that it incorporates a series of local and regional assessments - 33 in all - in a global portrait of the planet's health. It is the first global assessment of the planet's ecosystems to include not only a diversity of ecosystems, but to draw on a wide range of cultural orientations and intellectual traditions, including those of indigenous peoples. The Sub-global Assessments Working Group integrated information from multiple sources and found that biophysical factors such as land-use change, climate change and variability, pollution, and invasive species have a significant effect on human well-being across cultures. For example, in places where there are no other social safety nets, diminished human well-being tends to increase immediate dependence on ecosystem services, which can damage the capacity of those local ecosystems. Multiscale Assessments provides students, researchers, and policymakers with a baseline and framework for ongoing assessments of ecosystem and human well-being on a variety of scales around the world. |
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US |
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Island Press |
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Returnable |
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