- Offers an overview of the opportunities provided by a better understanding of ecosystem services
- Discusses how a better understanding of ecosystem services might enable a co-created future
- Provides an authoritative yet accessible overview of the current understanding of this complex and challenging area of environmental science
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- About this book
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This book explores humanity’s relationship with the natural world throughout evolutionary history, and the need to reorient this onto a symbiotic basis. It integrates the themes of natural and artificial selection, the characteristics of historic ‘revolutions’, and directed versus random change. Inspiring community-based projects, mainly from the developing world, show how ecosystem regeneration uplifts human livelihoods in a positively reinforcing cycle, embodying lessons germane to co-creating a Symbiocene era wherein humanity’s substantial influence (the Anthropocene) achieves increasing symbiosis with the natural processes shaping the former Holocene epoch. The Ecosystems Revolution provides practical, positive examples, highlighting the attainability of an ‘ecosystems revolution’.
- About the authors
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Dr Mark Everard is Associate Professor of Ecosystem Services at the University of the West of England (UWE) Bristol, UK, as well as a broadcaster and author of many books, magazine features and scientific publications about ecosystems, sustainability, water and wetlands including their sustainable use, conservation and fish fauna.
- Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-3
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Of This Earth
Pages 5-18
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Breakthroughs in the Ascent of Humanity
Pages 19-34
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Chance or Choice?
Pages 35-53
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Reanimating the Landscape
Pages 55-94
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- The Ecosystems Revolution
- Authors
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- Mark Everard
- Copyright
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-31658-1
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-31658-1
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-31657-4
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-81089-8
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- IX, 170
- Number of Illustrations
- 3 b/w illustrations
- Topics
