Ecosystem services are the resources and processes supplied by natural ecosystems which benefit humankind (for example, pollination of crops by insects, or water filtration by wetlands). They underpin life on earth, provide major inputs to many economic sectors and support our lifestyles. Agricultural and urban areas are by far the largest users of ecosystems and their services and (for the first time) this book explores the role that ecosystem services play in these managed environments. The book also explores methods of evaluating ecosystem services, and discusses how these services can be maintained and enhanced in our farmlands and cities. This book will be useful to students and researchers from a variety of fields, including applied ecology, environmental economics, agriculture and forestry, and also to local and regional planners and policy makers.

Ecosystem services are the resources and processes supplied by natural ecosystems which benefit humankind (for example, pollination of crops by insects, or water filtration by wetlands). They underpin life on earth, provide major inputs to many economic sectors and support our lifestyles. Agricultural and urban areas are by far the largest users of ecosystems and their services and (for the first time) this book explores the role that ecosystem services play in these managed environments. The book also explores methods of evaluating ecosystem services, and discusses how these services can be maintained and enhanced in our farmlands and cities. This book will be useful to students and researchers from a variety of fields, including applied ecology, environmental economics, agriculture and forestry, and also to local and regional planners and policy makers.

Contributors xiReviewers xivForeword xvIntroduction xviSteve Wratten, Harpinder Sandhu, Ross Cullen and RobertCostanzaPart A: Scene Setting 11 Ecosystem Services in Farmland and Cities 3Harpinder Sandhu and Steve Wratten2 Ecological Processes, Functions and Ecosystem Services:Inextricable Linkages between Wetlands and Agricultural Systems16Onil Banerjee, Neville D. Crossman and Rudolf S. deGroot3 Key Ideas and Concepts from Economics for Understanding theRoles and Value of Ecosystem Services 28Pamela Kaval and Ramesh BaskaranPart B: Ecosystem Services in Three Settings 434 Viticulture can be Modified to Provide Multiple EcosystemServices 45Sofia Orre-Gordon, Marco Jacometti, Jean Tompkins and SteveWratten5 Aquaculture and Ecosystem Services: Reframing theEnvironmental and Social Debate 58Corinne Baulcomb6 Urban Landscapes and Ecosystem Services 83Jürgen Breuste, Dagmar Haase and Thomas ElmqvistPart C: Measuring and Monitoring Ecosystem Services atMultiple Levels 1057 Scale-dependent Ecosystem Service 107Yangjian Zhang, Claus Holzapfel and Xiaoyong Yuan8 Experimental Assessment of Ecosystem Services in Agriculture122Harpinder Sandhu, John Porter and Steve WrattenPart D: Designing Ecological Systems to Deliver EcosystemServices 1379 Towards Multifunctional Agricultural Landscapes for the UpperMidwest Region of the USA 139Nicholas Jordan and Keith Douglass Warner10 Supply Chain Management and the Delivery of EcosystemsServices in Manufacturing 157Mary Haropoulou, Clive Smallman and Jack Radford11 Market-based Instruments and Ecosystem Services: Opportunityand Experience to Date 178Stuart M. Whitten and Anthea CogganEpilogue: Equitable and Sustainable Systems 194Steve Wratten, Harpinder Sandhu, Ross Cullen and RobertCostanzaIndex 196