What Has Nature Ever Done For Us?
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What Has Nature Ever Done For Us?

How Money Really Does Grow On Trees

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What Has Nature Ever Done For Us?

How Money Really Does Grow On Trees

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About This Book

From Indian vultures to Chinese bees, Nature provides the 'natural services' that keep the economy going. From the recycling miracles in the soil; an army of predators ridding us of unwanted pests; an abundance of life creating a genetic codebook that underpins our food, pharmaceutical industries and much more, it has been estimated that these and other services are each year worth about double global GDP. Yet we take most of Nature's services for granted, imagining them free and limitless... until they suddenly switch off. This is a book full of immediate, impactful stories, containing both warnings (such as in the tale of India's vultures, killed off by drugs given to cattle, leading to an epidemic of rabies) but also the positive (how birds protect fruit harvests, coral reefs protect coasts from storms and how the rainforests absorb billions of tonnes of carbon released from cars and power stations). Tony Juniper's book will change whole way you think about life, the planet and the economy

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Publisher
Profile Books
Year
2013
ISBN
9781847659422
Topic
Ciencias biológicas
Subtopic
Ciencias en general

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Foreword
  6. Prologue Sealed World
  7. Chapter 1 Indispensable Dirt
  8. Chapter 2 Life from Light
  9. Chapter 3 Eco-innovation
  10. Chapter 4 The Pollinators
  11. Chapter 5 Ground Control
  12. Chapter 6 Liquid Assets
  13. Chapter 7 Sunken Billions
  14. Chapter 8 Ocean Planet
  15. Chapter 9 Insurance
  16. Chapter 10 Natural Health Service
  17. Chapter 11 False Economy?
  18. Acknowledgements
  19. Index