Tag Archives: Robert Costanza

Growth of ecosystem services concept

Research addressing ecosystem services is rapidly increasing. The graph shows increases in the number of papers following publications of Daily’s Nature’s services in 1997 and the MA in 2005. Note: the graph is based on searching ISI web of science … Continue reading

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Visualizing the great acceleration

A visualization of the great acceleration from the Encyclopedia of the Earth article Evolution of the human-environment relationship by Costanza and others. Figure 1. Selected indicators of environmental and human history. While this depiction of past events is integrative and … Continue reading

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Ecological Engineering and New Orleans

Robert Costanza, William Mitsch, and John Day, three ecologists with long experience with wetlands, New Orleans, and ecological economics, have an editorial in the journal Ecological Engineering on Creating a sustainable and desirable New Orleans (pdf). Their arguement is a … Continue reading

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