Climate change impacts on tropical forests in Central America : an ecosystem service perspective /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Abingdon, Oxon :
Routledge,
2015.
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| Series: | Earthscan forest library.
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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.