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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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In this paper we evaluate the economic, natural capital and ecosystem services impacts of strategies for conserving Colombias rich natural capital endowment. Specifically, we consider Government program proposals for establishing Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES), implementing more...
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A broad range of agriculture-environment interactions can be organized around the concept of agriculture as a producer and consumer of ecosystem services . Viewed as capital assets, ecosystems embody production technologies that are valuable, complex, and often poorly understood. The quantity...
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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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An integrated economic/ecological model is developed to address tradeoffs between biodiversity conservation and two … maximizes social welfare based on grazing profits, hunter net benefits, and conserving biodiversity in a natural ecosystem. The … ecological model defines a steady-state set of sustainable grazing and hunting choices, but biodiversity conservation may reduce …
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The concept of 'Natural Capital' has come to play a central role in current debates about biodiversity and nature … Capital’ in the Debate about Biodiversity …
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