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Urban Watershed Services For Improved Ecosystem Management and Risk Reduction, Assessment Methods and Policy Instruments: State of the Art

Depietri, Yaella; Guadagno, Lorenzo; Breil, Margaretha - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013

Under scenarios of increasing unplanned urban expansion, environmental degradation and hazard exposure, the …

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Economic Valuation of Forest Ecosystem Services: Methodology and Monetary Estimates

Chiabai, Aline; Travisi, C. M.; Ding, H.; Markandya, A.; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009

By using ad hoc value transfer protocols, this paper offers a methodological contribution and provides accurate per hectare estimates of the economic value of some selected ecosystem services for all forest biomes in the world, identified following the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment taxonomy...

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How Overconfident are Current Projections of Anthropogenic Carbon Dioxide Emissions?

Keller, Klaus; Miltich, Louise I.; Robinson, Alexander; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2007

projections. The range of several CO2 emission scenarios (e.g., from the Special Report on Emission Scenarios) misses potentially … important tails of our projected probability density function. Studies that have interpreted the range of CO2 emission scenarios … as an approximation for the full forcing uncertainty may well be biased towards overconfident climate change projections. …

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Recreational, Cultural and Aesthetic Services from Estuarine and Coastal Ecosystems

Nunes, Paulo A.L.D.; Portela, Rosimeiry; Rao, Nalini; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009

investigated based on a comprehensive review of the literature on the valuation of the recreation, cultural and aesthetic services …

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Scaling up Ecosystem Services Values: Methodology, Applicability and a Case Study

Brander, Luke; Ghermandi, Andrea; Kuik, Onno; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

The approach of using existing data on economic values of local ecosystem services for an assessment of these values at a larger geographical scale can be called “scaling up”. In a scaling-up exercise, economic values from a particular study site are transferred to another geographical...

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Assessing the Impact of Biodiversity on Tourism Flows: A model for Tourist Behaviour and its Policy Implications

Macagno, Giulia; Loureiro, Maria; Nunes, Paulo A.L.D.; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009

This analysis provides an example of how biodiversity can be measured by means of different indicators, and how the latter can be used to assess the influence of the biodiversity profile of a region on the tourism flows towards it. Previous studies have considered environmental amenities as one...

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Valuation of Ecosystem Services Provided by Biodiversity Conservation: An Integrated Hydrological and Economic Model to Value the Enhanced Nitrogen Retention in Renaturated Streams

Bräuer, Ingo; Marggraf, Rainer - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2004

The importance of ecosystem functions for humankind is well known. But only few attempts have been undertaken to estimate the economic value of these ecosystem services. In particular, indirect methods are rarely used, even though they are most suitable for the task. This discrepancy is because...

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Using Data Envelopment Analysis to Assess the Relative Efficiency of Different Climate Policy Portfolios

Bosetti, Valentina; Buchner, Barbara - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005

Within the political, scientific and economic debate on climate change, the process of evaluating climate policies ex-ante, during and/or ex-post their lifetime, is receiving increasing attention from international institutions and organisations. The task becomes particularly challenging when...

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Controlling for Biases in Primary Valuation Studies: A Meta-analysis of International Coral Reef Values

Abdullah, Sabah; Rosenberger, Randall S. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012

This paper updates the existing meta-analysis in coral reef recreation taking into account the previous work of Brander et al. (2007) but considering some stated preference biases and/or effects. The present meta-analysis uses twice the number of observations as the previous one and sheds more...

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Why Worry About Climate Change? A Research Agenda

Tol, Richard S.J. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

impacts and higher-order effects; the valuation of biodiversity loss; the implications of extreme climate scenarios and … others negative, but overall the uncertainty seems to concentrate on the downside risks and current estimates of the damage …

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