Climate change impacts on tropical forests in Central America : an ecosystem service perspective /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Ebook Library
Other Authors: Chiabai, Aline (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2015.
Series:Earthscan forest library.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Aline Chiabai
  • Part I. Central American tropical forests, ecosystem services and human wellbeing
  • An overview of forest biomes and ecoregions of Central America / Lenin Corrales, Claudia Bouroncle, and Juan Carlos Zamora
  • Ecosystem services in tropical forests : contribution to human well-being and implications for economic valuation / Aline Chiabai
  • Part II. Impacts of climate and land-use changes in Central American tropical forests
  • Impacts of climate change on ecosystem hydrological services of Central America : water availability / Pablo Imbach, Bruno Locatelli, Juan Carlos Zamora, Emily Fung, Lluis Calderer, Luis Molina and Philippe Ciais
  • Climate change impacts on the water services in Costa Rica : a production function for the hydro-energy sector / Elisa Sainz de Murieta, Aline Chiabai and Juan Carlos Zamora
  • Climate change economic impacts on water and recreation services in Central American forests / Elena Ojea, Juan Carlos Zamora, Julia Martin-Ortega and Pablo Imbach
  • Cost-Benefit analysis of alternative land-use scenarios : a sustainability study for the Volcanic Central Talamanca Biological Corridor / Helen Ding, Aline Chiabai and Diego Tobar
  • Part III. Economic assessment, adaptation options and policy implications
  • The role of economic valuation of ecosystem services in an interdisciplinary context / Anil Markandya
  • Ecosystem-based adaptation : natural responses to climate change impacts / Giacomo Fedele, Raffaele Vignola and Marco Otarola.