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Author Juniper, Tony, author.

Title What nature does for Britain / Tony Juniper.

Publication Info. London : Profile Books, 2015.

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Contents Copyright Page; Contents; Preface -- What Nature Does For Britain; Chapter 1 -- Nutrient nation; Chapter 2 -- Bees, bats and earwigs; Chapter 3 -- Have our fish had their chips?; Chapter 4 -- Waterland; Chapter 5 -- Taming the flood; Chapter 6 -- Carbon country; Chapter 7 -- Energy without end; Chapter 8 -- Human habitat; Chapter 9 -- Imagine; Acknowledgements; Index.
Summary From the peat bogs and woodlands that help to secure our water supply, to the bees and soils that produce most of the food we eat, Britain is rich in 'natural capital'. Yet we take supplies of clean water and secure food for granted, rarely considering the free work nature does for Britain. In fact for years we have damaged the systems that sustain us under the illusion that we are keeping prices down, through intensive farming, drainage of bogs, clearing forests and turning rivers into canals. As Tony Juniper's new analysis shows, however, the ways in which we meet our needs often doesn't m.
Subject Environmental economics -- Great Britain.
Natural history -- Great Britain.
Nature -- Effect of human beings on.
Great Britain -- Environmental conditions.
Great Britain -- Rural conditions.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General.
Ecology. (OCoLC)fst00901476
Environmental economics. (OCoLC)fst00912895
Natural history. (OCoLC)fst01034268
Nature -- Effect of human beings on. (OCoLC)fst01034564
Rural conditions. (OCoLC)fst01101474
Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
Other Form: Print version: 9781781253281
ISBN 9781782830986 (electronic bk.)
1782830987 (electronic bk.)
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