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The purpose of this note is to set out the underlying philosophy of the ecosystem services approach as it is applied in UK policy circles. The aim is to clarify some flexible "ground rules" which should guide both the use of this type of decision support tool itself, and the interpretation of...
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Technology platform strategies offer a novel way to orchestrate a rich portfolio of contributions made by the many independent actors who form an ecosystem of heterogeneous complementors around a stable platform core. This form of organising has been successfully used in the smartphone, gaming,...
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The recent surge of interest in “ecosystems” in strategy research and practice has mainly focused on what ecosystems are and how they operate. We complement this literature by considering when and why ecosystems emerge, and what makes them distinct from other governance forms. We argue that...
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I study how the distribution of environmental goods and income affect the economic valuation of local public goods. I find that how environmental inequality affects societal willingness to pay (WTP) for environmental local public goods is determined by their substitutability as well as by how...
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complementarities (unique or supermodular, generic or specific, uni- or bi-directional) shape ecosystems, and offer a “theory of …
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In the October issue of INTERECONOMICS the author already published an article on "Environmental issues and the Developing Economies". The present continuation deals with the effects which the adoption of environmental controls in the developed countries may have on the developing economies.
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Understanding the economic value of nature and the services it provides to humanity has become increasingly important for local, national and global policy and decision making. However, problems arise in that it is difficult to obtain meaningful values for goods and services that ecosystems...
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Understanding that the environment is more than the resource base of human economic activities was a watershed in the … awareness of the real value of the environment and the need for an assessment of its quality. The complex of benefits from … intermediate link between the processes and phenomena in the environment and human well-being. The main groups of the ecosystem …
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