Book contents
- The Economics of Biodiversity
- The Economics of Biodiversity
- Copyright page
- Contents
- List of Boxes
- Foreword
- Preface to the CUP Edition
- Preface
- Part I Foundations
- Chapter 0 How We Got to Where We Are
- Chapter 1 Nature as an Asset
- Chapter 2 Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
- Introduction
- 2.1 Biodiversity in Ecosystems
- 2.2 Primary Producers
- 2.3 Ecosystems do not Maximise NPP
- 2.4 Ecosystem Goods and Services: Classification
- 2.5 Invisibility and Silence of Regulating and Maintenance Services
- 2.6 Conservation vs. Pollution
- 2.7 Ecosystem Productivity and Resilience
- 2.8 Biodiversity and Ecosystem Productivity/Resilience: The Causal Connection
- 2.9 Modularity as a Spatial Feature of Ecosystems
- 2.10 Biodiversity and Ecosystem Productivity: Summary
- Annex 2.1 Community Structure
- Annex 2.2 Measuring Biodiversity
- Annex 2.3 Quantity and Quality of our Stock and How it has Changed
- Chapter 3 Biospheric Disruptions
- Chapter 4 Human Impact on the Biosphere
- Chapter 4* The Bounded Global Economy
- Chapter 5 Risk and Uncertainty
- Chapter 6 Laws and Norms as Social Institutions
- Chapter 7 Human Institutions and Ecological Systems, 1: Unidirectional Externalities and Regulatory Policies
- Chapter 8 Human Institutions and Ecological Systems, 2:
- Chapter 8* Management of CPRs:
- Chapter 9 Human Institutions and Ecological Systems, 3:
- Chapter 10 Well-Being Across the Generations
- Chapter 11 The Content of Well-Being: Empirics
- Chapter 12 Valuing Biodiversity
- Chapter 13 Sustainability Assessment and Policy Analysis
- Chapter 13* Accounting Prices and Inclusive Wealth
- Part II Extensions
- Part III The Road Ahead
- Appendix
- Acronyms
- Glossary
- References
- Acknowledgements
- Author Index
- Subject Index
Annex 2.2 - Measuring Biodiversity
from Chapter 2 - Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 March 2025
- The Economics of Biodiversity
- The Economics of Biodiversity
- Copyright page
- Contents
- List of Boxes
- Foreword
- Preface to the CUP Edition
- Preface
- Part I Foundations
- Chapter 0 How We Got to Where We Are
- Chapter 1 Nature as an Asset
- Chapter 2 Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
- Introduction
- 2.1 Biodiversity in Ecosystems
- 2.2 Primary Producers
- 2.3 Ecosystems do not Maximise NPP
- 2.4 Ecosystem Goods and Services: Classification
- 2.5 Invisibility and Silence of Regulating and Maintenance Services
- 2.6 Conservation vs. Pollution
- 2.7 Ecosystem Productivity and Resilience
- 2.8 Biodiversity and Ecosystem Productivity/Resilience: The Causal Connection
- 2.9 Modularity as a Spatial Feature of Ecosystems
- 2.10 Biodiversity and Ecosystem Productivity: Summary
- Annex 2.1 Community Structure
- Annex 2.2 Measuring Biodiversity
- Annex 2.3 Quantity and Quality of our Stock and How it has Changed
- Chapter 3 Biospheric Disruptions
- Chapter 4 Human Impact on the Biosphere
- Chapter 4* The Bounded Global Economy
- Chapter 5 Risk and Uncertainty
- Chapter 6 Laws and Norms as Social Institutions
- Chapter 7 Human Institutions and Ecological Systems, 1: Unidirectional Externalities and Regulatory Policies
- Chapter 8 Human Institutions and Ecological Systems, 2:
- Chapter 8* Management of CPRs:
- Chapter 9 Human Institutions and Ecological Systems, 3:
- Chapter 10 Well-Being Across the Generations
- Chapter 11 The Content of Well-Being: Empirics
- Chapter 12 Valuing Biodiversity
- Chapter 13 Sustainability Assessment and Policy Analysis
- Chapter 13* Accounting Prices and Inclusive Wealth
- Part II Extensions
- Part III The Road Ahead
- Appendix
- Acronyms
- Glossary
- References
- Acknowledgements
- Author Index
- Subject Index
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- The Economics of BiodiversityThe Dasgupta Review, pp. 59 - 61Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024