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Steven E. Kraft

Kraft: Professor and Chair, Dept. of Agribusiness Economics, Southern Illinois University

The Law and Policy of Ecosystem Services

The Law and Policy of Ecosystem Services

The Law and Policy of Ecosystem Services is the first comprehensive exploration of the status and future of natural capital and ecosystem services in American law and policy. The book develops a framework for thinking about ecosystem services across their ecologic, geographic, economic, social, and legal dimensions and evaluates the prospects of crafting a legal infrastructure that can help build an ecosystem service economy that is as robust as existing economies for manufactured goods, natural resource commodities, and human-provided services.