Climate Change Impacts on Tropical Forests in Central America

Climate Change Impacts on Tropical Forests in Central America

An ecosystem service perspective

Chiabai, Aline

Taylor & Francis Ltd

06/2015

220

Dura

Inglês

9780415720809

15 a 20 dias

476

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Introduction Part 1: Central American Tropical Forests, Ecosystem Services and Human Wellbeing 1. An overview of forest biomes and ecoregions of Central America 2. Ecosystem services in tropical forests: Contribution to human well-being and implications for economic valuation Part 2: Climate, Water and Land-Use Changes in Central American Tropical Forests 3. Impacts of climate change on ecosystem hydrological services of Central America: Water availability 4. Climate change impacts on the water services in Costa Rica: A production function for the hydro-energy sector 5. Climate change economic impacts on water and recreation services in Central American forests 6. Cost-benefit analysis of alternative land-use scenarios: A sustainability study for the volcanic central Talamanca biological corridor Part 3: Economic Assessment, Adaptation, Options and Policy Implications 7. The role of economic valuation of ecosystem services in an interdisciplinary context 8. Ecosystem-based adaptation: Natural responses to climate change impacts
Ecosystem Services;Biodiversity;Climate Change;EbA;Conservation;Pe Scheme;Environmental economics;Hydrologic Ecosystem Services;Environmental policy;Economic Valuation;Environmental studies;Dry Forests;Sustainability;Recreation Services;Sustainable development;Moist Forests;biodiversity loss;Silvopastoral Systems;natural resources;Sc En Ar Io;tropical forest;Tropical Forests;environmental science;Climate Change Scenarios;forestry;Costa Rica;SRES B1;Central America;CMIP3;Biophysical Impacts;BAU Scenario;Volcanica Central Talamanca Corridor;Hydro-power Plant;Land Use Change;Forests Ecoregion;Basque Centre for Climate Change;Dry Tropical Forests;Reference Climate Conditions;BC3;Ns Er Va Tio;Biodiversity conservation;ecological economics;Watershed Management Plan;Benefit Transfer;Costing Adaptation;Implications of Climate Change in Mexico, the Caribbean and Central America;Global Change and Forestry;Managing Forest Ecosystems;Reveal the True Cost of Global Warming to Nature and Human Society;Climate and Water;Ecosystem Services from Agriculture and Agroforestry;Smallholders, Forest Management and Rural Development in the Amazon;Collaborative Governance of Tropical Landscapes;Ecosystem Goods and Services from Plantation Forests