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A soil change-based methodology for the quantification and valuation of ecosystem services from agro-ecosystems: A case study of pastoral agriculture in New Zealand
Dominati, E.; Mackay, A.; Green, S.; Patterson, M. - In: Ecological Economics 100 (2014) C, pp. 119-129
This paper tests the steps required to transform a theoretical natural capital/ecosystem service framework for soils into an operational model. Each of the services provided by a volcanic soil under a pastoral dairy use are quantified and valued. The six guiding principles underpinning the...
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Estimation of the Water Quality Amelioration Value of Wetlands: A Study of the Western Cape, South Africa
Turpie, Jane; Day, Elizabeth; Ross-Gillespie, Vere; … - 2010
Wetlands are commonly understood to have the capacity to reduce the loads of excess nutrients, pathogens, sediments, and other contaminants generated by various activities in their catchment areas. However, quantifying these “services” is difficult and most research in this field has...
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Economic value of the nutrient retention function of restored floodplain wetlands in the Elbe River basin
Grossmann, Malte - In: Ecological Economics 83 (2012) C, pp. 108-117
This paper presents an application of an indirect method, the alternative or replacement cost method to value a regulatory ecosystem service: the retention of river nutrient loads by floodplain wetlands. The paper presents a cost-minimisation model for nutrient abatement measures for the River...
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Assessing the Benefits and Costs of Dryland Forest Restoration in Central Chile
Shiappacasse, Ignacio; Nahuelhual, Laura; Vásquez, Felipe - Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias … - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010618329
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On the relation between ecosystem services, intrinsic value, existence value and economic valuation
Davidson, Marc D. - In: Ecological Economics 95 (2013) C, pp. 171-177
Various attempts have been made to amalgamate the concepts of intrinsic value and ecosystem services, often with a stop-over at the economic concept of existence value. These attempts are based on a confusion of concepts, however. In this article, two types of non-use values are distinguished:...
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Economic Analysis for Ecosystem Service Assessments
Bateman, Ian; Mace, Georgina; Fezzi, Carlo; Atkinson, Giles - In: Environmental & Resource Economics 48 (2011) 2, pp. 177-218
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Trade-offs between fire prevention and provision of ecosystem services in Slovenia
Mavsar, Robert; Japelj, Anže; Kovač, Marko - In: Forest Policy and Economics 29 (2013) C, pp. 62-69
Forests have a potential to provide the society with a number of different ecosystem services. Their actual provision depends upon the demand expressed by different stakeholder groups. To comply with the expressed needs for the provision, forest managers have to define management objectives and...
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An Initial Assessment of the Economic Value of Coastal and Freshwater Wetlands in West Asia
Eppink, Florian V.; Brander, Luke M.; Wagtendonk, Alfred J. - In: Land 3 (2014) 3, pp. 557-573
Many countries in West Asia, defined in this study as the Arabic-speaking countries of the Arabian Peninsula plus Turkey and Iran, have enacted environmental conservation laws but regional underlying drivers of environment change, such as rising incomes and fast-growing populations, continue to...
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Capturing the complexity of biodiversity: A critical review of economic valuation studies of biological diversity
Bartkowski, Bartosz; Lienhoop, Nele; Hansjürgens, Bernd - In: Ecological Economics 113 (2015) C, pp. 1-14
Biodiversity is a highly complex and abstract ecological concept. Even though it is not one physical entity, it … economic valuation of biodiversity, it remains to be a particularly challenging ‘valuation object’. Valuation practitioners … therefore have to use proxies for biodiversity, many of which are very simple (single species, habitats). This paper presents a …
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Re-establishing an Ecological Discourse in the Debate over the Value of Ecosystems and Biodiversity
Spash, Clive L.; Aslaksen, Iulie - Institute for Multilevel Governance and Development, … - 2012
The approach of conceptualizing biodiversity and ecosystems as goods and services to be represented by monetary values … environmental pragmatism is now being pushed forward internationally under the guise of hardwiring biodiversity and ecosystems … services into finance. This conflicts with the realisation that biodiversity and ecosystems have multiple incommensurable …
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