Biologists Unite - The Rise and Fall of Ecosystem Services

An inside account of the meteoric rise and disillusioning fall of ecosystem services--an idea once heralded as the way forward for conservation. Daniel Chiu Suarez offers an intimate, insider perspective on these hotly debated questions: an ethnographic portrait of ecosystem services told through the experiences and predicaments of its core champions--chief among them, life scientists--toiling at the forefront of diverse efforts aimed at “mainstreaming” its tenets across a range of governance contexts. Drawing on more than half a decade of participant observation conducted around two influential initiatives--the Natural Capital Project and the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)--the book narrates the meteoric “rise” of ecosystem services but also, and perhaps more crucially, how fragile its influence turned out to be when put to the test.

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• Authors: Daniel Chiu Suarez
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 06.01.2026
• EAN: 9780262553384
• ISBN: 978-0-262-55338-4
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, NATURE / Ecology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, Applied ecology, Conservation of the environment, Environmental policy & protocols, Environmental policy and protocols