Globalisation and Ecological Integrity in Science and International Law

0375705 - ÚVGZ 2012 RIV GB eng M - Monography Chapter
Cudlín, Pavel - Seják, J. - Pokorný, J.
Valuation of Ecosystem Services Towards Ecoligical Citizenship.
Globalisation and Ecological Integrity in Science and International Law. Vol. Chapter Two. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholar Publishing, 2011 - (Westra, L.; Bosselmann, K.; Soskolne, C.), s. 26-40. ISBN 978-1-4438-2734-8
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT(CZ) ED1.1.00/02.0073
Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z60870520
Keywords : ecosystem services * biodiversity valuation * ecological citizenship
Subject RIV: EH - Ecology, Behaviour

Nature or near-nature biotopes provide a large array of services (e.g. production of biomass, climate regulation, prevention of floods and soil erosion, maintenance of genetic resources), which are highly sensitive to changes of climate and land use. In addition, it must be reflected (i) the socio-economic demand for ecosystem services and (ii) the required design of policy instruments, market mechanisms, and land-use practices to support the adaptation of individual regional systems to global change. Taking into account that a major part of decisive life-supporting ecosystem services has not yet entered into the value system of human individuals, the replacement cost approach and the values derived seem to be the efficient way for quantifying the existential importance of ecosystem services for the human species. Dissemination of information about the values of ecosystem services could promote ecological citizenship consciousness in a similar way as an ecological foot-print has done.
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