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Watershed protection: Capturing the benefits of nature's water supply services
- S. Postel, B. Thompson
- Business
- 1 May 2005
Healthy watersheds provide valuable services to society, including the supply and purification of fresh water. Because these natural ecosystem services lie outside the traditional domain of… Expand
Institutional incentives for managing the landscape: Inducing cooperation for the production of ecosystem services
- Rebecca L. Goldman, B. Thompson, G. C. Daily
- Economics
- 15 December 2007
Abstract Agricultural landscapes hold tremendous potential for producing a diverse stream of ecosystem services. Yet, because the spatial configuration of particular ecosystems is critical to the… Expand
The nature and causes of the global water crisis: Syndromes from a meta-analysis of coupled human-water studies
- V. Srinivasan, E. Lambin, S. Gorelick, B. Thompson, S. Rozelle
- Engineering, Geology
- 1 October 2012
Freshwater scarcity has been cited as the major crisis of the 21st century, but it is surprisingly hard to describe the nature of the global water crisis. We conducted a meta- analysis of 22 coupled… Expand
Valuing the protection of ecological systems and services; a report of the EPA Science Advisory Board
- B. Thompson, Robert E. Paradise, +33 authors A. Nugent
- Business
- 2009
- 137
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Taking stock of the regional fishery management councils
- J. Eagle, S. Newkirk, B. Thompson
- Economics
- 2003
Over a third of the nation's fish stocks currently are overfished. These stocks historically supported some of America's most important fisheries: cod, salmon, rockfish, tuna, and red snapper, to… Expand
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Tragically Difficult: The Obstacles to Governing the Commons
- B. Thompson
- Economics, Physics
- 2000
Garrett Hardin's famous article, "The Tragedy of the Commons," recognized the overuse that occurs when resources are freely available to everyone in common. This essay examines why it has often… Expand
Assessment of human–natural system characteristics influencing global freshwater supply vulnerability
- J. Padowski, S. Gorelick, B. Thompson, S. Rozelle, S. Fendorf
- Geography
- 23 October 2015
Global freshwater vulnerability is a product of environmental and human dimensions, however, it is rarely assessed as such. Our approach identifies freshwater vulnerability using four broad… Expand
Protecting Ecosystem Services: Science, Economics and Law
- James A. Salzman, B. Thompson, G. Daily
- Environmental Science
- 2001
- 76
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Environmental Law and Policy
- James E. Salzman, B. Thompson
- Political Science
- 1 May 2002
Environmental Law and Policy is a user-friendly, concise, inexpensive treatment of environmental law. Written to be read rather than used as a reference source, the authors provide a broad conceptual… Expand
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