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Institutions, Ecosystems, and Sustainability (Ecological Economics Series (International Society for Ecological Economics).) by Robert Costanza, Bobbi Low, Elinor Ostrom, James Wilson is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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<p>In the latter part of the 20th century, humans are doing a particularly poor job of managing natural resources in a sustainable way over the long term.<br> Institutions, Ecosystems, and Sustainability focuses on long-term, sustainable natural resource management practices at the local, national, and international levels. The authors suggest that a major cause of the "sustainability problem" - regulatory policies for large areas that often threaten the sustainability of both natural resources and previously effective governance problems - lie in "scale" problems. Large scale ecosystems are not simply larger versions of smaller systems, and micro-scale ecosystems are not merely microcosms of large scale systems. The driving forces and feedback mechanisms operate at different levels and exhibit distinct patterns of their own.<br> Traditional management practices that do well at the local level cannot be expected to do equally well in handling activities organized at the continental or global scale. Even more importantly, when local systems are superseded by national or international management practices, local ecosystems frequently suffer.<br> The challenge is to match ecosystems a

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Author
Robert Costanza, Bobbi Low, Elinor Ostrom, James Wilson
Publisher
CRC Press LLC
Published
2000
Language
EN
ISBN
9780367801434
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Nature, Economics, Law

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