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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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Hungary is home to a great diversity of plant and animal species, whose preservation is of global value. This paper focuses on the institutional aspects of the research project on on-farm conservation of crop genetic resources in three Environmentally Sensitive Areas of Hungary (Dévaványa,...
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governance in the context of the problem of the emergent regime on access and benefit sharing. …
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Agricultural biodiversity is a crucial environmental resource. Much of the agricultural biodiversity remaining today is … applies the choice experiment method to estimate the value farmers themselves attach to the agricultural biodiversity still …
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This survey paper examines various information insufficiencies in biodiversity conservation and their impact of … making efficient biodiversity conservation decisions: 1) biological uncertainty 2) natural uncertainty 3) individual …
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The economic literature of property rights has been assessing the impact of different community based arrangements on the efficiency of natural resource management of specific areas. Differently, other strands of development economics and policy-oriented research have been concerned with issues...
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about biodiversity: the diversity of organisms that inhabit a given area. Concepts of species diversity such as alpha … are combined into a single sample) have been developed (Whittaker, 1960). Biodiversity is more complex than just the … by biodiversity indices such as Simpson's Diversity Indices, Species Richness Index, Shannon Weaver Diversity Indices …
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influence in the management of the natural resources and biodiversity amongst rural communities in the transitional zone of … natural beings. These beliefs and perceptions have in the past strongly supported the conservation of biodiversity. However … ; Sustainability and Biodiversity …
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