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This study was undertaken to assess farmers’ preferences and willingness to pay (WTP) for various climate …-smart interventions in the Indo-Gangetic Plain. To assess farmers’ choices and their WTP for the potential climate-smart technologies …
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In this paper we examine whether it is possible to create a market for ecosystem services deriving from rural landscape … landscape features which improve or worsen landscape appearance and secondly, to discover the willingness of beneficiaries to … pay for maintaining these landscape and environmental resources. Then, in order to understand whether social benefits can …
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landscape, and to elicit preferences for the different management alternatives available in each case. Social perceptions were … personal interviews of a representative sample of landscape users. From the interviews, individual ratings of various … characteristics of the landscape were obtained in a two-stage process: first, the total set of images was rated and second, the sample …
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, linking ecosystems and human well-being. As rural landscape is considered provider of multifunction services and is affected … by a wide range of land uses several ecosystems are involved in developing an operative definition of landscape. Thus a … common and comprehensive definition of landscape function, services provides, benefits and value are not enough developed. In …
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landscape and environmental conservation. First of all to do this we consider the results of some studies we conducted during … landscape features able to improve or to worsen landscape aspect and secondly to point out the willingness to pay of … beneficiaries to maintain landscape and environment features. Then to understand if it is possible to increase social benefits by …
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-agricultural use of land. Abandonment of farms has gradually brought about a deterioration in the agricultural landscape and given rise … the variations in cultivated areas and the consequent mutations of the agricultural landscape in a sub-area of Messina … agricultural landscape especially in the marginal rural areas of the European Union. …
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result indicates that there is demand of the following landscape services: food, raw materials, fresh water, climate and air …This research focuses on building a specific framework and to measure the contribution of landscape to the development … of rural economy. The main issues are to be determined how CAP connected what the landscape and how it contributes to the …
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gradually become integrated into the demand for new products and services related to landscape use and recreational activities …
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Baiyun Karst Caverns in Lincheng County, Hebei Province, is a rare karst caverns in subhumid climate region of the …-corrosion landscape and chemical deposition landscape are abundant, They are various shapes, curtain drapery, cave flag, cave shield …
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