What caused some of the great civilizations of the past to collapse into ruin, and what can we learn from their fates? Diamond weaves an all-encompassing global thesis through a series of historical-cultural narratives. Moving from the prehistoric Polynesian culture of Easter Island to the...

Mainstreaming and implementing the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment results by integrating them into sustainable development strategy / Mohan Munasinghe --Development, ecosystems, and governance : what are the priorities for policy makers? / Antonio La Vina -- To change global change : ecosystem...

This paper presents a thorough reflection on Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) programs, which may be viewed as the most innovative tools of the ‘environmental policy toolkit'. These are incentive-based mechanisms, compensating landowners to manage the natural resources under their control...