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1. Valuing Ecosystem Services

   The Case of Multi-functional Wetlands

   By R. Kerry Turner, Stavros Georgiou, Brendan Fisher

   Ecosystem services can be broadly defined as the aspects of ecosystems that provide benefits to people. This book provides guidance on the valuation of ecosystem services, using the case of multifunctional wetlands to illustrate and make recommendations regarding the methods and techniques that can...

   Published March 2nd 2011 by Routledge
2. Wetlands: Market and Intervention Failures

   Four case studies

   By Kerry Turner, Tom Jones

   Series: Environmental and Resource Economics Set

   Wetlands are vital and valuable resources, both as rich and unique wildlife habitats, and for the functions they fulfil - providing flood and sediment control and coastal protection, as carbon sinks and pollution buffers, for their role in storing and recycling nutrients, as well as for their...

   Published September 30th 2009 by Routledge
3. Managing a Sea

   The Ecological Economics of the Baltic

   By Ing-Marie Gren, R. Kerry Turner, Frederick Wulff

   Marine resources and fish stocks are now high on the international and economic research agendas, and the management of highly complex marine ecosystems is increasingly important. The task is complicated by the number of interlinked factors to be taken into account, such as social impacts, drainage...

   Published January 31st 2000 by Routledge