Institutions, Ecosystems, and Sustainability - 9780367397753

CRC Press

Institutions, Ecosystems, and SustainabilityAuthor(s): Robert Costanza, Bobbi Low, Elinor Ostrom, James Wilson\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: CRC Press\nISBN-13: 9780367397753, 978-0367397753\nSynopsis\nIn the latter part of the 20th century, humans are doing a particularly poor job of managing natural resources in a sustainable way over the long term.\nInstitutions, Ecosystems, and Sustainability focuses on long-term, sustainable natural resource management practices at the local, national, and international levels. The authors suggest that a major cause of the \""sustainability problem\"" - regulatory policies for large areas that often threaten the sustainability of both natural resources and previously effective governance problems - lie in \""scale\"" problems. Large scale ecosystems are not simply larger versions of smaller systems, and micro-scale ecosystems are not merely microcosms of large scale systems. The driving forces and s