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A Summary of Ecosystem Service Economic Valuation Methods and Recommendations for Future Studies
Kaval, Pamela - Department of Economics, Waikato Management School - 2010
This short working paper summarizes ecosystem service economic valuation methods. The paper begins with an introduction to ecosystem services, and then describes the various methods that can be used to value them. An extensive literature review was carried out, illustrating those ecosystem...
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Biodiversity conservation, loss of natural capital and interest rates
Tisdell, Clem - In: Ecological Economics 70 (2011) 12, pp. 2511-2515
It is argued that there is neither regular relationship between changes in the level of the market rate of interest and variations in the rate of biodiversity loss nor does such a regular relationship occur between alterations in the market rate of interest and changes in the rate of natural...
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Development and application of a new Forestation Index: global forestation patterns and drivers
Benedek, Zsofia; Ferto, Imre - Közgazdaság-tudományi Intézet, Közgazdaság- és … - 2013
cover increased between 1990 and 2010. As "forests" is a heterogeneous group, a biodiversity-corrected Forestation Index is … also introduced to distinguish between different forms of "environmentally valuable" new forests (that are expected to have … forestation and different types should be acknowledged - treatment of forests as a homogenous category is an oversimplification. …
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The effects of current income and expected change in future income on stated preferences for environmental improvements
Jacobsen, Jette Bredahl; Lundhede, Thomas Hedemark; … - In: Journal of Forest Economics 19 (2013) 2, pp. 206-219
environmental goods. For valuation of environmental goods in forests and other habitats in Denmark, we find that both current income …
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Rewarding carbon sequestration in South-Western French forests: A costly operation?
Pajot, Guillaume - In: Journal of Forest Economics 17 (2011) 4, pp. 363-377
The extension of rotation lengths in forests has been proposed as an option for increasing carbon storage and … contributing to climate change mitigation. This paper presents the results of a case study conducted on forests located in the …
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The Greener, the Happier? - The Effects of Urban Green and Abandoned Areas on Residential Well-Being
Krekel, Christian; Kolbe, Jens; Wüstemann, Henry - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2015
This paper investigates the effects of urban green and abandoned areas on residential well-being in major German cities, using panel data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the time period between 2000 and 2012 and cross-section data from the European Urban Atlas (EUA) for the year...
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The Value of Native Biodiversity Enhancement in New Zealand: A Case Study of the Greater Wellington Area
Kaval, Pamela; Yao, Richard; Parminter, Terry - Department of Economics, Waikato Management School - 2007
New Zealand’s biodiversity consists of over 80,000 native plants, animals and fungi, many of which are indigenous and located on private property. To enhance native biodiversity and discourage activities that may deplete it, policies can be introduced that can encourage individual...
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Economic Value of Cultural Landscape, Non-Production Services of a Territory, and Non-Market Valuation Methods. A Survey Focused on Determining which Landscape Functions are Valuat...
Švejdarová, Hana; Cudlínová, Eva - In: Acta Oeconomica Pragensia 2013 (2013) 5, pp. 64-81
Almost every landscape fulfils various important functions for human society. Nevertheless, planning does not always allocate individual functions the significance that they ought to receive in comparison with others. A typical example is undervaluing landscape services that cannot be expressed...
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Valuing type and scope of ecosystem conservation: A meta-analysis
Hjerpe, Evan; Hussain, Anwar; Phillips, Spencer - In: Journal of Forest Economics 21 (2015) 1, pp. 32-50
Ecosystem conservation programs are increasingly incorporating both preservation and restoration strategies for ensuring the flow of ecosystem services from public lands. While preservation and restoration have similar end ecological objectives, differences in these conservation types may create...
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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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