Ecosystem services and global trade of natural resources : ecology, economics, and policies / edited by Thomas Koellner. [O'Reilly electronic resource]
pt. 1. Foundations for understanding the trade of natural resources and its implication for ecosystem services -- pt. 2. Ecosystem impacts of global flows of virtual land, water and sea in the physical economy -- pt. 3. Accounting tools for global ecosystem services -- pt. 4. Instruments for global governance of ecosystem services.
Summary
Intends to show how the increase in international trade of biophysical commodities can damage global ecosystems and their services, how those damages can be accounted for in Life Cycle Assessment and Green National Accounting and how instruments in the public and private sector can help to achieve a more sustainable global trade.