Natural Capital and Human Economics Survival

by Robert Costanza, Thomas Prugh, John H. Cumberland, et al.

Book Overview

The global ecosystem, which provides a vast array of indispensible resources and services to human beings, can be seen as a form of capital that can never be replaced by any combination of human labour, wealth, and technology. The Earth's natural capital endowment is under severe strain from rapidly increasing human economic activity and population. The remaining natural capital is becoming inadequate to allow us to live as we have in the past, much...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1887490027
• ISBN13: 9781887490023
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: International Society for Ecological Economic
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.