Overview
- Patagonian marine and terrestrial ecosystems are home to one of the few remaining well-conserved wilderness areas on our planet
- Argues that sustainable development in Patagonia should maintain a healthy economy while also protecting the ecological process for future generations
- Addresses the challenge that ecosystem services often are ignored in market transactions, government policies and land and marine decision-making
- Assesses how societies have directly and indirectly benefited from ecosystem services in Patagonia
Part of the book series: Natural and Social Sciences of Patagonia (NSSP)
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About the editors
Guillermo J. Martínez Pastur is a Forest Engineer and holds a PhD in Agronomy. With over 20 years of research experience in forest management, conservation and landscape ecology, his work is focused on temperate forest in the southernmost native forests of the world. A Senior Research Scientist at CONICET, he has authored more than 150 papers and 25 book chapters, and been an associate editor for several journals on ecology and landscape ecology.
Laura Nahuelhual Muñoz is an Agricultural Engineer and holds an MSc in Rural Development and PhD in Environmental Economics. A Principal Investigator at the Research Center: Dynamics of High Latitudes’ Marine Ecosystems, for the majority of her career she has focused on various aspects of the ecosystem services approach, covering mapping, social and economic valuation and governance, in both terrestrial and marine social-ecological systems.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ecosystem Services in Patagonia
Book Subtitle: A Multi-Criteria Approach for an Integrated Assessment
Editors: Pablo L. Peri, Guillermo Martínez Pastur, Laura Nahuelhual
Series Title: Natural and Social Sciences of Patagonia
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69166-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-69165-3Published: 30 April 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-69168-4Published: 30 April 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-69166-0Published: 29 April 2021
Series ISSN: 2662-3463
Series E-ISSN: 2662-3471
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 501
Number of Illustrations: 27 b/w illustrations, 58 illustrations in colour
Topics: Ecosystems, Applied Ecology, Conservation Biology/Ecology, Biodiversity, Ecology