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Actualizing sustainability: environmental policy for resilience in ecological systems
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GARMESTANI, A., M. HOPTON, AND M. T. HEBERLING. Actualizing sustainability: environmental policy for resilience in ecological systems. Chapter 4, Sustainability: multi-disciplinary perspectives. Bentham Science Publishers, Ltd., Oak Park, IL, , pp65-87, (2012).
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To inform the public.
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Society benefits from ecological systems in many ways. These benefits are often referred to as ecosystem services (MA 2005). Because these services matter to humans, they are critical to sustainability. Sustainability has many definitions, but for this chapter, we link our definition to the conditions necessary for the resilience of ecological systems because it implies the persistent flow of ecosystem services. Loss of biodiversity has the capacity to erode the resilience of conditions favorable to humanity, as it can lead to the degradation or loss of ecosystem services critical to human survival (Duffy 2009).
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