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The paper reviewed the methods in use for the economic valuation of Non-timber forest products. In the main, three methods are used. They are direct market price, indirect market price and non-market estimates. No method is superior to the other but appropriate method of valuation depends on the...
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conservation of rapidly depleting biodiversity, the execution should effectively guarantee the recognition of the local communities …
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contribution of biodiversity to the sustainable development has recently been acknowledged. The need for this recognition arose … from the fact that biodiversity provides a variety of socio- cultural and economic services for the humankind such as food …, water, shelter, medicines, energy and aesthetic value. Despite realization of biodiversity as essential factor for human …
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biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services provision in the context of an existing policy mix. In the context of the EU 2010 … goal of halting biodiversity loss, researchers have been called upon to evaluate the role of economic instruments for cost …
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This paper incorporates the interdisciplinary New Institutional and Transaction Costs Economics and suggests a holistic framework for analysis of management agro-ecosystem services. That new approach for analyses and assessment of management of agro-ecosystem services includes: definition of the...
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associated with some new challenges such as unsustainable exploitation, lost biodiversity, land degradation, water and air …
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Individual countries considering participating in a Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) mechanism need information on what it would cost them to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, and how to actually deliver those emissions reductions....
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the world’s population still depends on plant based traditional medicines (WHO, 2002). Growing consciousness about health …
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This paper investigates the effect of shadow price regarding weak sustainability indicators based on the genuine savings indicator. We analyse the forest resources considering positive externalities of natural capital, as the approximation from market rent alone would under-estimate the true...
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Increasing demand of timber along with the rising concerns towards environment create a need to analyze the management system of forests in Punjab. Both natural and planted forests are present in province of Punjab. They are different in nature and thus have different management plans. This...
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