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The value of biodiversity in economic decision making : applying the IEEM+ESM approach to conservation strategies in Colombia
Banerjee, Onil; Cicowiez, Martín; Malek, Žiga; … - 2020
In this paper we evaluate the economic, natural capital and ecosystem services impacts of strategies for conserving … Ecosystem Services (PES), implementing more sustainable silvopastoral systems and expanding habitat banking. We develop and … Ecosystem Services Modeling (IEEMESM) to shed light on the multi-dimensional impacts of these programs from the perspective of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012587042
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Integrating the value of natural capital in evidence-based policy making
Banerjee, Onil; Vargas, Renato; Cicowiez, Martín - 2020
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012587530
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Mapping Ecosystem Functions to the Valuation of Ecosystem Services : Implications of Species-Habitat Associations for Coastal Land-Use Decisions
Sanchirico, James N. - 2013
Habitats and the ecosystem services they provide are part of the world's portfolio of natural capital assets. Like many … interested in understanding how to make the link between ecosystem function, ecosystem service, and conservation policy decisions … this research is not just important for ecological science but it can and will influence ecosystem service values that in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012753208
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Valuing Ecosystem Services
Heal, Geoffrey M. - 2011
The value of the services provided to human societies by natural ecosystems and biogeochemical cycles has recently been the topic of discussion and research. Here I review some of the basic economic principles necessary for understanding some of the questions that arise in this area. I argue...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014034880
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Valuing Ecosystem Services
Heal, Geoffrey M. - 2011
The value of the services provided to human societies by natural ecosystems and biogeochemical cycles has recently been the topic of discussion and research. Here I review some of the basic economic principles necessary for understanding some of the questions that arise in this area. I argue...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014034956
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Remittances and Small-Scale Coastal Fishing in a Developing Country
Gilbert, Ben - 2020
Remittances to developing countries exceed $550 billion annually. Although many poor rural households that depend on these remittances also harvest local common-pool resources, few studies explore this relationship. We develop a dynamic model of a coastal fishing household with remittance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012844383
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A Corporate-Crime Perspective on Fisheries : Liability Rules and Non-Compliance
Jensen, Frank - 2015
The existing fisheries economics literature analyzes compliance problems by treating the fishing firm as one cohesive unit, but in many cases, violations are committed by agents acting on behalf of a firm. To account for this, we analyze the principal-agent relationship within the fishing firm....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013017160
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Comparing the Effectiveness of Regulation and Pro-Social Emotions to Enhance Cooperation : Experimental Evidence from Fishing Communities in Colombia
Lopez, Maria Claudia; Murphy, James J.; Spraggon, John M.; … - 2013
This paper presents the results from a series of framed field experiments conducted in fishing communities off the Caribbean coast of Colombia. The goal is to investigate the relative effectiveness of exogenous regulatory pressure and pro-social emotions in promoting cooperative behavior in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014203832
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The economics of multispecies harvesting : theory and application to the Barents Sea fisheries
Flaaten, Ola; Flåten, Ola - 1988
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000739631
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An indicator for ecosystem externalities in fishing
Ravn-Jonsen, Lars; Andersen, Ken H.; Vestergaard, Niels - 2015
Ecosystem externalities arise when one use of an ecosystem affects its other uses through the production functions of … the ecosystem.We use simulations from a size-spectrum ecosystem model to investigate the ecosystem externality created by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283691