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Ecosystem functions of oil palm plantations : A review
Dislich, Claudia; Keyel, Alexander C.; Salecker, Jan; … - 2015
Oil palm plantations have expanded rapidly in the last decades. This large-scale land-use change has had great impacts on both the areas converted to oil palm and their surroundings. Howev-er, research on the impacts of oil palm agriculture is scattered and patchy, and no clear overview ex-ists....
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Methods for modeling public policy and investment impacts on the economy, natural capital and ecosystem services
Banerjee, Onil; Crossman, Neville; Vargas, Renato; … - 2020
the economy, society and the environment. In this paper, we review the state of the art in available models and datasets …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012587560
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Ecosystem services may provide large economic values in Kenya and Vietnam : a value transfer application based on results from a systematic literature review
Hettiarachchi, Upeksha; Zhang, Wei; Thuy Thu Pham; … - 2023
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Looking at payments for ecosystems services in the Philippines
Domingo, Sonny N.; Manejar, Arvie Joy A.; Ocbina, John … - 2022
The payment for ecosystem services (PES) emerges as part of an arsenal of tools for innovative domestic financing for otherwise absent markets relating to natural resource management. Its traditional framework aspects of conditionality, voluntary transaction, at least one buyer and seller, and...
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Economic land use, ecosystem services and microfounded species dynamics
Eichner, Thomas; Pethig, Rüdiger - 2004
species forming a food chain. The size of habitat determines the diversity and abundance of species. That biodiversity …
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Inequality and the value of public natural capital
Meya, Jasper; Baumgärtner, Stefan; Drupp, Moritz A.; … - 2020
We study how income inequality affects the social value of a dynamic public good, such as natural capital. Our theory shows that both intra- and intertemporal inequality affect the social value of public natural capital. The direction and size of the effects are driven by the degree of...
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Biodiversity and globalization
Heal, Geoffrey - 2002
Reduction of the earth’s biodiversity as a result of human activities is a matter of great concern to prominent … scientists. What are the economic aspects of this loss? In economic terms, what is biodiversity and why might it matter? And is … the loss of biodiversity in any way connected with globalization of the economy? …
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Estimating the value of crop diversity conservation services provided by the Czech National Programme for Agrobiodiversity
Tyack, Nicholas; Scasny, Milan - 2018
We estimate the willingness-to-pay (WTP) for conserving crop varieties for ten years in the Czech Republic using a double-bounded dichotomous choice model to analyze data collected with an online contingent valuation survey administered to a main country-wide sample of 1037 respondents and a...
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Cold water coral ecosystems and their biodiversity : a review of their economic and social value
Foley, Naomi; Van Rensburg, Thomas; Armstrong, Claire W. - 2008
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Die Rolle der Natur beim Klimawandel : Natur und biologische Vielfalt
2010 - August 2009
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