Book
Law and Policy of Ecosystem Services
(2007)
Abstract
The Law and Policy of Ecosystem Services is the first comprehensive exploration of the status and future of natural capital and ecosystem services in American law and policy. The book develops a framework for thinking about ecosystem services across their ecologic, geographic, economic, social, and legal dimensions and evaluates the prospects of crafting a legal infrastructure that can help build an ecosystem service economy that is as robust as existing economies for manufactured goods, natural resource commodities, and human-provided services. The book examines the geographic, ecological, and economic context of ecosystem services and provides a baseline of the current status of ecosystem services in law and society. It identifies shortcomings of current law and policy and the critical areas for improvement and forges an approach for the design of new law and policy for ecosystem services.
Disciplines
Publication Date
2007
Editor
J.B. Ruhl, Steven E. Kraft, and Christopher L. Lant
Publisher
Island Press
ISBN
9781559630948
Citation Information
Christopher L. Lant. Law and Policy of Ecosystem Services. Washington D.C.(2007) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/christopher_lant/162/