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The costs of coastal sector impacts from sea level rise (SLR) are an important component of the total projected … to coastal resources will depend strongly on adaptation, society's response to cope with the impacts. This paper presents … a new model to assess coastal impacts from SLR, combining global scope with high spatial resolution to fill a gap …
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WISE project. This project aims at investigating the effects and the impacts of extreme weather events, particularly very … covers the quantitative analysis of the impacts of climate extremes on the socio-economic system in Italy and the analysis of … the perception of weather impacts through questionnaire survey to the general public. With regard to the individuals …
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WISE project. This project aims at investigating the effects and the impacts of extreme weather events, particularly very … covers the quantitative analysis of the impacts of climate extremes on the socio-economic system in Italy and the analysis of …
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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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economic values. This paper examines the welfare impacts of goods and services provided by wetlands. We collected 385 estimates …The rationale for conservation and creation of wetlands stems from the recognition of both their ecological and … of the economic value of 181 natural and man-made wetlands from 167 studies worldwide. The resulting database is less …
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Ecologists and economists both use a different approach to determine the value of nature. Its ecological value can be measured using criteria like rarity and diversity of species in an ecosystem. The economic value can be determined using non-market valuation techniques. This paper focuses on an...
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