Shop Our Categories Missouri Botanical Garden Press Search site About the Press Our Mission Contact Us Publication Submission Instructions New Titles Books Monographs in Systematic Botany Flora Series Flora of Missouri Flora Mesoamericana A Flora of the Liverworts and Hornworts of New Zealand Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Moss Flora of Central America Flora of China Moss Flora of China Flora of the Venezuelan Guyana Flora of North America Flora of Pakistan Botany by Region Africa Eurasia North America Central America South America About the Missouri Botanical Garden Field Guides Botanical History and Biographies Educational Titles Ethnobotany Ecology and Environmental Science Bryophytes Icones Orchid Taxonomy Icones Pleurothallidinarum Icones Plantarum Tropicarum Series II Journals About Our Journals Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden NOVON, A Journal for Botanical Nomenclature Botanical Prints & Notecards Notecards Orchid Prints Bateman's Orchidaceae of Mexico and Guatemala Orchid Folios News from the Press Submit Search Nav Menu 2 Nav Menu 3 Nav Menu 4 Nav Menu 5 Nav Menu 6 Nav Menu 7 Nav Menu 8 Home > Books > Managing Human-Dominated Ecosystems: Proceedings of the Symposium Held at MBG in March 1998 MONOGRAPHS IN SYSTEMATIC BOTANY FROM THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN, VOLUME 84 Our Price: $10.00 ISBN: 9780915279852 Qty: Description How do you place an economic value on biodiversity? How does the trend toward high-tech industries affect pressure on environmental resources, at home and abroad? How can we build an environmentally sustainable future that makes sense economically? An international group of ecologists and economists gathered at the Missouri Botanical Garden in 1998 to discuss ecosystem services and the economy, a hot topic and one of incredible importance for the globalization of the worlds economy. Examples are drawn from New York Citys Catskill and Croton Watersheds, Australian savannas, Latin American cities and forests, European industrial systems, African river basins, and more. This symposium was held in celebration of the dedication of The Monsanto Center, new research facilities at the Garden. Publication Information Publisher: Missouri Botanical Garden PressPublication Date: 2001ISBN: 9780915279852Format: SoftcoverPages: 371Illustrated: Yes Related Items Index to Plant Chromosome Numbers, 1990-1991 Icones Pleurothallidinarum XVI: Systematics of Pleurothallis subgenera Crocodeilanthe, Rhynchopera and Talpinaria Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica, Volumen II: Gimnospermas y Monocotiledoneas (Agavaceae–Musaceae) Flora of China, Volume 5: Ulmaceae through Basellaceae Our Price: $5.00 Our Price: $6.00 Our Price: $56.00 Our Price: $80.00 John Charles Fremont, Botanical Explorer Global Patterns of Plant Diversity: Alwyn H. Gentry Forest Transect Data Set Experimental and Molecular Approaches to Plant Biosystematics Flora of China, Volume 12: Fabaceae Our Price: $10.00 Our Price: $15.00 Our Price: $5.00 Our Price: $100.00