Overview
- 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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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’.
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About the author
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Ecosystems Revolution
Authors: Mark Everard
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31658-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-31657-4Published: 23 July 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81089-8Published: 30 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-31658-1Published: 09 July 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 170
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Environmental Sociology, Environmental Geography, Environmental Management, Ecosystems