The Business Of Biodiversity
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Author | : Mark Everard |
Publisher | : WIT Press |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1845642082 |
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These days, the business and sustainabilityA agenda is fast-moving. Business finds itself absolutely on the front line of the battle being waged between humankind (as the dominant species on the planet) and the rest of the living systems and creatures with which we share the planet. This will be seen in retrospect as a collective aberration of monstrous proportions (we are, in effect, making war on ourselves), but it is taking us a very long time indeed to wake up to the consequences of this aberration. The Business of BiodiversityA nails that mis-prioritisation with splendid eloquence. Once business people come to see that biodiversity still represents the primary resource for all our business activitiesA, then the business case for embedding biodiversity right at the heart of corporate strategy grows stronger by the day. By the same token, the societal case for putting biodiversity at the top of the agendaA rather than treating it as an irritating afterthought becomes overwhelming.
Author | : Joshua Bishop |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2013-06-17 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1136497129 |
Download The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity in Business and Enterprise Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This book is a product of the TEEB study (The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity). It provides important evidence of growing corporate concern about biodiversity loss and offers examples of how leading companies are taking action to conserve biodiversity and to restore ecosystems. This book reviews indicators and drivers of biodiversity loss and ecosystem decline, and shows how these present both risks and opportunities to all businesses. It examines the changing preferences of consumers for nature-friendly products and services, and offers examples of how companies are responding. The book also describes recent initiatives to enable businesses to measure, value and report their impacts and dependencies on biodiversity and ecosystem services. The authors review a range of practical tools to manage biodiversity risks in business, with examples of how companies are using these tools to reduce costs, protect their brands and deliver real business value. The book also explores the emergence of new business models that deliver biodiversity benefits and ecosystem services on a commercial basis, the policy enabling frameworks needed to stimulate investment and entrepreneurship to realize such opportunities, and the obstacles that must be overcome. The book further examines how businesses can align their actions in relation to biodiversity and ecosystem services with other corporate responsibility initiatives, including community engagement and poverty reduction. Finally, the book concludes with a summary and recommendations for action.
Author | : OECD |
Publisher | : OECD Publishing |
Total Pages | : 125 |
Release | : 2019-12-06 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9264597042 |
Download Biodiversity: Finance and the Economic and Business Case for Action Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This report sets the economic and business case for urgent and ambitious action on biodiversity. It presents a preliminary assessment of current biodiversity-related finance flows, and discusses the key data and indicator gaps that need to be addressed to underpin effective monitoring of both the pressures on biodiversity and the actions (i.e. responses) being implemented. The report concludes with ten priority areas where G7 and other countries can prioritise their efforts.
Author | : Kerry ten Kate |
Publisher | : Earthscan |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Biodiversity |
ISBN | : 1853839418 |
Download The Commercial Use of Biodiversity Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
• First ever collection of findings about the proliferation of urban agriculture written by the world’s leading authority in the field• Urban agriculture feeds hundreds of millions of people worldwide and is a rapidly emerging issue in urban and developm
Author | : David Pearce |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 203 |
Release | : 2013-11-05 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1134165293 |
Download The Economic Value of Biodiversity Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Biodiversity loss is one of the major resource problems facing the world, and the policy options available are restricted by inappropriate economic tools which fail to capture the value of species and their variety. This study describes in non-technical terms how cost-benefit analysis techniques can be applied to species and species loss, and how they provide a measure of the efficiency of conservation measures. Only when conservation can be shown to pass such a basic economic test, the authors claim, will it be incorporated into policies.;David Pearce has also written Blueprint for a Green Economy.
Author | : Anne E. Magurran |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2013-04-18 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1118687922 |
Download Measuring Biological Diversity Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This accessible and timely book provides a comprehensive overview of how to measure biodiversity. The book highlights new developments, including innovative approaches to measuring taxonomic distinctness and estimating species richness, and evaluates these alongside traditional methods such as species abundance distributions, and diversity and evenness statistics. Helps the reader quantify and interpret patterns of ecological diversity, focusing on the measurement and estimation of species richness and abundance. Explores the concept of ecological diversity, bringing new perspectives to a field beset by contradictory views and advice. Discussion spans issues such as the meaning of community in the context of ecological diversity, scales of diversity and distribution of diversity among taxa Highlights advances in measurement paying particular attention to new techniques such as species richness estimation, application of measures of diversity to conservation and environmental management and addressing sampling issues Includes worked examples of key methods in helping people to understand the techniques and use available computer packages more effectively
Author | : Bartosz Bartkowski |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2017-05-18 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1351708171 |
Download Economic Valuation of Biodiversity Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This book provides an ecological economic perspective on the value of diversity in ecosystems. Combining insights from various sub-disciplines of ecology and environmental/ecological economics the author constructs a conceptual framework which identifies the ways in which biodiversity influences human well-being are identified and offers a novel, unifying perspective on the economic value of biodiversity.
Author | : Donald S. Maier |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 572 |
Release | : 2012-05-23 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9400739915 |
Download What's So Good About Biodiversity? Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
There has been a deluge of material on biodiversity, starting from a trickle back in the mid-1980's. However, this book is entirely unique in its treatment of the topic. It is unique in its meticulously crafted, scientifically informed, philosophical examination of the norms and values that are at the heart of discussions about biodiversity. And it is unique in its point of view, which is the first to comprehensively challenge prevailing views about biodiversity and its value. According to those dominant views, biodiversity is an extremely good thing – so good that it has become the emblem of natural value. The book's broader purpose is to use biodiversity as a lens through which to view the nature of natural value. It first examines, on their own terms, the arguments for why biodiversity is supposed to be a good thing. This discussion cuts a very broad and detailed swath through the scientific, economic, and environmental literature. It finds all these arguments to be seriously wanting. Worse, these arguments appear to have consequences that should dismay and perplex most environmentalists. The book then turns to a deeper analysis of these failures and suggests that they result from posing value questions from within a framework that is inappropriate for nature's value. It concludes with a novel suggestion for framing natural value. This new proposal avoids the pitfalls of the ones that prevail in the promotion of biodiversity. And it exposes the goals of conservation biology, restoration biology, and the world's largest conservation organizations as badly ill-conceived.
Author | : David & Associates (Hastings, Neb.). |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 16 |
Release | : 200? |
Genre | : Biodiversity |
ISBN | : |
Download Platte River Field Notes : "Conservation of Biodiversity" Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Biodiversity conservation |
ISBN | : |
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