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from Part II - Extensions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 March 2025
Directly investing in our stock of natural assets can help to reduce the Impact Inequality. Conservation of functioning ecosystems and restoration of degraded ecosystems are two important approaches to maintain, improve and increase our stock of natural assets and their associated biodiversity. This chapter and Chapter 19 focus on approaches to conservation and restoration of our stock of ecosystems, the living organisms that live in them and the genes they contain.
Conservation seeks to prevent the degradation of ecosystems and the associated species and genes within them, whereas restoration seeks to recover ecosystems from degraded states (Figure 18.1). Ecosystems are dynamic systems that are not fixed in time and space; they interact in multiple ways. Chapter 2 highlighted evidence of how biodiversity enables ecosystems to be resilient, adapt and evolve, and how it supports their productivity in providing ecosystem goods and services. Chapter 2 also described how ecosystems are the key components of the biosphere in the economics of biodiversity and showed that biodiversity is an enabling characteristic.
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