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Delivering a Multi-Functional and Resilient Urban Forest
Hale, James D.; Pugh, Thomas A. M.; Sadler, Jon P.; … - In: Sustainability 7 (2015) 4, pp. 4600-4624
Tree planting is widely advocated and applied in urban areas, with large-scale projects underway in cities globally. Numerous potential benefits are used to justify these planting campaigns. However, reports of poor tree survival raise questions about the ability of such projects to deliver on...
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Can we close Earth's sustainability gap?
Weijermars, Ruud - In: Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 15 (2011) 9, pp. 4667-4672
The principal options for engineering Earth's ecological future can be concisely visualized in a conceptual dilemma matrix. Scaling of the matrix with real world data confirms the widening of Earth's sustainability gap, due to our increasing ecological footprint. The simplicity of the dilemma...
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Bringing Ecosystem Services into the Real World: An Operational Framework for Assessing the Economic Consequences of Losing Wild Nature
Balmford, Andrew; Fisher, Brendan; Green, Rhys; Naidoo, … - In: Environmental & Resource Economics 48 (2011) 2, pp. 161-175
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Urban Areas and Watershed Services: Strategies for Ecosystem Management and Urban Risk Reduction
Depietri, Yaella; Guadagno, Lorenzo; Breil, Margaretha - In: Review of Environment, Energy and Economics - Re3 (2014) March
Under scenarios of increasing unplanned urban expansion, environmental degradation and hazard exposure, the …
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What matters and why? Ecosystem services and their bundled qualities
Klain, Sarah C.; Satterfield, Terre A.; Chan, Kai M.A. - In: Ecological Economics 107 (2014) C, pp. 310-320
amenable to market or non-market economic valuation; and 4) Stakeholders primarily conceive of the importance of nature in … that are not adequately expressed using market or non-market valuation. Respondents used diverse metaphors about why the …
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Ecosystem Services - Economic Analysis of their loss, their valuation and regulation
Loft, Lasse; Lux, Alexandra - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
challenges of methods for economic valuation of ecosystem services. It concludes that these methods have restrictions and that it … on place to another. On a smaller scale however monetary values can be generated more precise. Economic valuation is thus …
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Economic Consequences of Pollinator Declines: A Synthesis
Bauer, Dana Marie; Sue Wing, Ian - In: Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 39 (2010) 3
This paper surveys the literature on pollinator declines and related concerns regarding global food security. Methods for valuing the economic risks associated with pollinator declines are also reviewed. A computable general equilibrium (CGE) approach is introduced to assess the effects of a...
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Urban Watershed Services For Improved Ecosystem Management and Risk Reduction, Assessment Methods and Policy Instruments: State of the Art
Depietri, Yaella; Guadagno, Lorenzo; Breil, Margaretha - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013
Under scenarios of increasing unplanned urban expansion, environmental degradation and hazard exposure, the …
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VALUING THE IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM SERVICES
KRUPNICK, ALAN; McLAUGHLIN, DAVID - In: Climate Change Economics (CCE) 03 (2012) 04, pp. 1250021-1
approach has been to use integrated assessment models. There is a need for more targeted valuation studies to serve as further … interconnectedness of those systems, it seems too reductionist to focus on valuation of changes to specific resources or systems, in this …. There are an increasing number of ecosystem valuation studies motivated by climate change that have the right scale and type …
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Integrating Ecology and Economics in the Study of Ecosystem Services: Some Lessons Learned
Polasky, Stephen; Segerson, Kathleen - In: Annual Review of Resource Economics 1 (2009) 1, pp. 409-434
This paper discusses both the opportunities for and the challenges associated with integrating economics and ecology in the study of ecosystem services. We distinguish between integration in positive versus normative analysis. There is rapid growth in positive research that combines the two...
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