01944nam a22001337a 4500 20260107121239.0 9789819746873 333.7ENG SAB.E Ecosystem services valuation for sustainable development Sabu Joseph and A P Pradeepkumar Singapore Springer 2024 https://search.worldcat.org/title/1455756932 This book discusses state-of-the-art techniques for ecosystem service valuation of forests, rivers, wetlands, lakes and coastal ecosystems, for their sustainable development and management. An ecosystem service valuation can be used to address environmental degradation of natural resources. Numerous natural and man-made factors like climate change, pollution, encroachment, and over-exploitation, have put ecosystems under threat worldwide. These ecosystems provide a lot of services to human beings but many of these services are not taken into account in the market prices for products and services, and their ecological functions are not economically valued. The valuation of these ecosystems' services will help to shed light on their sustainable management. This book offers a fresh and innovative resource that captures the latest advancements, addresses emerging challenges, and propels the field forward, making it a must-have for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers. This book is also useful for stakeholders to achieve United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals 6 (Sustainability of water resources) and 13 (Climate action). The most relevant target audiences are hydrologists, hydrogeologists, environmental scientists, ecologists, biologists, and academicians. This book can be useful to post-graduate students, researchers, academicians, policy makers, NGOs in these fields. It also appeals to professionals in the fields of urban planning, agriculture, forestry, water resources management and environmental policy ddc BK 754861 754861 0 0 ddc 0 0 GEO GEO 2026-01-07 0 333.7ENG SAB.E GEO5781 2026-01-07 06:43:05 2026-01-07 BK 0 0 ddc 0 0 CAMPUS CAMPUS GEN 2026-04-21 0 333.7 JOS.E UCL35776 2026-04-21 13:42:18 2026-04-21 BK