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Biodiversity Loss: Economic and Ecological Issues.
Charles Perrings, Karl-Goran Maler, Carl Folke, C. S. Holling
and Bengt-Owe Jansson (eds.) 1995.
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Foreword
Preface
List of contributors
Introduction: framing the problem of biodiversity
loss
Charles Perrings, Karl-Goran Maler, Carl Folke, C. S. Holling
and Bengt-Owe Jansson
"We do not pretend to offer a comprehensive treatment of the problem.
Indeed, there is still massive ignorance and uncertainty about the
extent and significance of change in the level of biodiversity.
Extraordinarily little is known, for example, about even the existing
diversity of species. Estimates of the total number of species on the
planet range from five to one hundred million, of which less than
one and a half million have been described, let alone analysed for
their economically interesting properties (Miller et al. 1985). This
volume offers little to reduce this sort of uncertainty. What it
does is to identify the potential problems for humankind raised by
the loss of biodiversity, and so to establish what questions it is
worth posing in a world of finite resources. In so doing it
reassesses the basis of the biodiversity debate, shifting our
attention from the characteristics of particular organisms
to the mix of organisms in ecosystems: from, for example, the rosy
periwinkle to the composition of grasses in rangeland or of
decomposer organisms in tropical moist forests. The traditional hunt
for a cure for cancer in the specific properties of particular
species gives way to a search for the role played by the
mix of species and communities in maintaining the resilience of
ecosystems from which we obtain valuable ecological services." (p.02)
PART I: CONCEPTUALISING DIVERSITY AND
ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONS
1 Diversity functions
Martin L. Weitzman
2 Biodiversity in the functioning of ecosystems: an ecolog ical
synthesis
C. S. Holling, D. W. Schindler, Brian W. Walker and
Jonathan Roughgarden
3 Scale and biodiversity in coastal and estuanne ecosystems
Robert Costanza, Michael Kemp and Walter Boynton
PART II: INTEGRATING ECOLOGY AND ECONOMICS IN THE
ANALYSIS OF BIODIVERSITY LOSS
4 Wetland valuation: three case studies
R. K. Turner, Carl Folke, I. M. Gren and I. I. Bateman
5 An ecological economy: notes on harvest and growth
Gardner Brown And Jonathan Roughgarden
6 Biodiversity loss and the economics of discontinuous change
in semiand rangelands
Charles Perrings and Brian W. Walker
PART III: ECONOMIC ISSUES
7 Economic growth and the environment
Karl-Goran Maler
8 The international regulation of biodiversity decline: optional
policy and evolutionary product
Timothy Swanson
9 Policies to control tropical deforestation: trade interventions
versus transfers
Edward B. Barbier and Michael Rauscher
10 On biodiversity conservation
Scott Barrett
PART IV: CONCLUSIONS
11 Unanswered questions
Charles Perrings, Karl-Goran Maler, Carl Folke,
C. S. Holling and Bengt-Owe Jansson
References
Index
AUTHORS
Edward B. Barbier
Senior Lecturer in Environmental
Economics
University of York
Heslington, York YOI 5DD
Britain
Scott Barrett
Research Director at the Centre for
Social and Economic Research on
the Global Environment
(CSERGE)
Associate Professor of Economics
London Business School
Sussex Place
Regents Park, London, NW1 4SA
Britain
I. I Bateman
Lecturer in Environmental Economics
School of Environmental Sciences
University of East Anglia
Norwich, NR4 7TJ
Britain
Walter Boynton
Professor of Biology at the Chesapeake
Biological Laboratory
University of Maryland
PO Box 38
Solomons, MD 20688
United States
Gardner Brown
Professor of Economics
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195
United States
Robert Costanza
President of the International Society
for Ecological Economics
Director of the Maryland International
Institute for Ecological Economics
Professor University of Maryland
PO Box 39
Solomons, MD 20688
United States
Carl Folke
Deputy Director of the Beijer
International Institute of
Ecological Economics
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
PO Box 50005
S-104 05 Stockholm
Sweden
I. M Gren
Beijer International Institute of
Ecological Economics
Royal Swedish Academy of Science
Box 50005
S-104 05 Stockholm
Sweden
C. S. Holling
Arthur R. Marshall Jr. Professor of
Ecological Sciences
University of Florida
PO Box 118525
Gainesville, FL 32611
United States
Bengt-Owe Jansson
Director of the Stockholm Centre for
Marine Research and
Professor of Marine Ecology
Department of Systems Ecology
Stockholm University
S 106 91 Stockholm
Sweden
Michael Kemp
Professor of Biology
Horn Point Environmental Laboratory
University of Maryland
PO Box 775
Cambridge, MD 21613
United States
Karl-Goran Maler
Director of the Beijer International
Institute of Ecological Economics
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
PO Box 50005
S-IW 05 Stockholm
Sweden
Charles Perrings
Director of the Beijer Institute
Biodiversity Programme
Professor of Environmental
Economics and Environmental
Management
University of York
Heslington, York YO1 5DD
Britain
Michael Rauscher
Wissenschaftlicher Assistant
University of Kiel (and CEPR)
Institute of World Economics
D-24100 Kiel
Germany
Jonathan Roughgarden
Professor of Biological Sciences
and of Geophysics
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305
United States
D. W. Schindler
Professor of Zoology
University of Alberta
Edmonton, T6C 2E9
Canada
Timothy Swanson
Lecturer and Research Director
Cambridge University
CSERGE, Faculty of Economics
Cambridge, CB3 9DD
Britain
R. K. Turner
Executive Director at the
Centre for Social and Economic Research in the Global
Environment (CSERGE)
Professor of Economics
School of Environmental Sciences
University of East Anglia
Norwich, NR4 7TJ
Britain
Brian W. Walker
Director of the Division of Wildlife and Ecology
CSIRO
PO Box 84
Lyneham, Canberra, ACT 2602
Australia
Martin L. Weitzman
Professor of Economics
Harvard University
Department of Economics
Cambridge, MA 02138
United States
