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03288aam a2200493 i 4500 001 C9DD87485B9611EFABE9BE7952ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240816010336 008 120913s2013 enka 001 0 eng d 020 $a 1846685605 020 $a 9781846685606 035 $a (OCoLC)810949993 040 $a UKMGB $b eng $e rda $c UKMGB $d OCLCO $d CDX $d YDXCP $d BWK $d YNK $d WAU $d ORU $d MEAUC $d IAD $d OCLCF $d BEDGE $d OCLCQ $d CHVBK $d MEU $d OCLCQ $d NZAUC $d MCO $d UKMGB $d UKUSR $d OCLCO $d OCLCA $d OCLCL $d OCLCQ $d SILO 050 14 $a QH541.15.E267 $b J86 2013 082 04 $a 333.95 $2 23 100 1 $a Juniper, Tony, $e author. 245 10 $a What has Nature Ever Done for Us? : $b How Money Really Does Grow on Trees / $c Tony Juniper ; foreword by HRH the Prince of Wales. 264 1 $a London : $b Profile Books, $c 2013. 300 $a xi, 324 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 20 cm 546 $a Text in English. 500 $a Includes index. 505 0 $a Sealed world -- Indispensable dirt -- Life from light -- Eco-innovation -- Pollinators -- Ground control -- Liquid asses -- Sunken billions -- Ocean planet -- Insurance -- Natural health service -- False economy? 520 $a "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 "-- Publisher. 650 0 $a Ecosystem services. 650 0 $a Environmental economics. 650 0 $a Nature $x Effect of human beings on. 650 6 $a Services des eÌcosysteÌmes. 650 6 $a EÌconomie de l'environnement. 650 6 $a Homme $x Influence sur la nature. 650 7 $a Protection de l'environnement. $2 eclas 650 7 $a Conservation de la nature. $2 eclas 650 7 $a Economie de l'environnement. $2 eclas 650 7 $a Environment and ecology. $2 eflch 650 7 $a Ecosystem services. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01748896 650 7 $a Environmental economics. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00912895 650 7 $a Nature $x Effect of human beings on. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01034564 650 7 $a UmweltoÌkonomie $2 gnd 650 7 $a OÌkosystemdienstleistung $2 gnd 650 7 $a Environment and Ecology. $2 ukslc 700 0 $a Charles $b III, $c King of Great Britain, $d 1948- $e writer of foreword. $1 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJxCw7yp6r3yHw89mtWv73 941 $a 1 952 $l OUAX845 $d 20240816045317.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=C9DD87485B9611EFABE9BE7952ECA4DB 994 $a 92 $b IOTInitiate Another SILO Locator Search