ecosystems

Excerpt from the book American Tropics: The Caribbean Roots of Biodiversity Science by Megan Raby.

The authors examine the issues related to environmental discounting in cost-benefit analyses on projects of environmental impact by using a Delphi survey of a worldwide panel drawn from specialists.

The authors analyze perspectives of conservation professionals on the neoliberalization of ecosystem services, through a survey conducted with a group of conservationists based in Cambridge, England.

This collection of studies provides valuable historical contexts for making sense of contemporary environmental challenges facing Latin America.

The Aldo Leopold Archives in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries Digital Collections serve scholars, policy leaders, and the general public who look to Aldo Leopold for insight and inspiration on how to deal with complex conservation challenges facing society in the twenty-first century.

This film presents the interdisciplinary and international project BASYS (Baltic Sea System Studies), financed by the European Union in the years 1996 to 1999, which investigated many aspects and influences of mankind activities on the ecosystem Baltic Sea as well as the natural influences such as climate and weather. A large database accessible to all scientists was collected during the project and should help in the future to distinguish between the natural and human effects upon the ecosystem of the Baltic Sea.