Streams of revenue the restoration economy and the ecosystems it creates / Rebecca Lave and Martin Doyle.
| Author/creator | Lave, Rebecca, 1970- |
| Other author | Doyle, Martin, 1973- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2020] |
| Description | xiii, 192 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from MIT Press Direct to Open Backfile HSS Monographs |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Market-based approaches to conservation -- How stream restoration was born, and what came of it -- How markets, and mitigation, came to be accepted forms of environmental regulation -- The actors in stream mitigation banking -- How mitigation banks work, and the biography of a bank -- The mangle of practice -- Conclusion: Can markets for ecosystem services fix conservation? |
| Abstract | "One of the most influential, and perhaps surprising,developments in environmental policy in recent decades is the idea that we can protect the environment from the negative impacts of economic development by making environmental protection itself more economic. The goal is to reduce environmental harm not by preventing it, but by pricing it. Using stream mitigation banking, that is the market for rivers and streams under Section 404 of the US Clean Water Act, as a case, Lave and Doyle explain where market-based environmental management approaches came from, how they work in practice, and what they do on ground"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2019047639 |
| ISBN | 9780262539197 (paperback) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |