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This paper describes how Natural Capital Accounting (NCA) can be integrated into economy wide analytical frameworks to enhance evidence based decision making. Examples from applications of the Integrated Environmental Economic Modelling (IEEM) Platform show how explicitly accounting for the...
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The year 2020 is a critical year for sustainable development policy and practice with the review and renewal of various international commitments including the Sustainable Development Goals, the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Paris Agreement. The post-2020 agenda needs to be informed...
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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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greater understanding of the significant role of biodiversity in rural communities of developing countries who depend most on … input of biodiversity in developing countries to the provision of the ecosystem goods and services (EGS) that are essential … a necessary tool for achieving this objective. However, valuing biodiversity in a developing country context can be an …
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In this paper stochastic dynamic programming is used to investigate habitat conservation by a multitude of landholders under uncertainty about the value of environmental services and irreversible development. We study land conversion under competition on the market for agricultural products when...
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The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment is built on a conceptual framework that links biodiversity to the services … aims to highlight the mapping of biodiversity indicators and assesses their respective role on the valuation exercise. Our … results show that biodiversity loss is having an effect on forest ecosystem values. In addition, these effects reveal to be …
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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 … hypothesis of this paper is that the destination's biodiversity profile can be considered as a key component of environmental …
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