Nature's Frontiers: Achieving Sustainability, Efficiency, and Prosperity with Natural Capital

Front Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors and Contributors -- Main Messages -- Executive Summary -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Down to Earth -- Key messages -- Introduction -- The unraveling web of life -- Investing in natural capital -- An efficiency...

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Main Author: Damania, Richard (Author)
Other Authors: Polasky, Stephen (Contributor), Ruckelshaus, Mary (Contributor), Russ, Jason (Contributor), Chaplin-Kramer, Rebecca (Contributor), Gerber, James (Contributor), Hawthorne, Peter (Contributor), Heger, Martin Philipp (Contributor), Mamun, Saleh (Contributor), Ruta, Giovanni (Contributor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D. C. World Bank Publications 2023
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Environment and Sustainable Development Series
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Online Access:FWS01
FWS02
Summary:Front Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors and Contributors -- Main Messages -- Executive Summary -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Down to Earth -- Key messages -- Introduction -- The unraveling web of life -- Investing in natural capital -- An efficiency frontier approach -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2 Identifying a Sustainable Resource Efficiency Frontier: An Overview of the Approach -- Key messages -- Introduction -- Modeling land use efficiency: A summary of the methodology -- Measuring productivity through efficiency frontiers -- Impacts not considered: Shifts in the efficiency frontier -- Annex 2A: Water quality and the resource efficiency frontiers -- Annex 2B: Aggregation and the "headline" landscape efficiency score -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3 Envisioning a More Sustainable Future through a More Efficient Present -- Key messages -- Introduction -- How efficiently does the world use its land-based natural endowments? -- Landscape efficiency scores -- A typology -- Efficiency gains for achieving global carbon goals -- Efficiency gains for achieving economic development and food security goals -- Efficiency gains, biodiversity, and ecosystem services -- Caveats and limitations of the data and methods -- Annex 3A: Additional results -- Annex 3B: Nonmarket environmental scores: A further analysis of outcomes -- Annex 3C: Comparison of yield gaps calculated from GAEZ and data layers of this study -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4 Policy Implications for More Efficient Landscapes -- Key messages -- Introduction -- Policy objectives: Targeting the causes of the problem -- Exploring policy options by country typology -- Policy design concerns -- Conclusions -- Annex 4A: Decomposition analysis and shifting toward the efficiency frontier -- Notes -- References.
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Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (214 Seiten)
ISBN:9781464819247