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The aim of this paper is to present the economic problems of the spatial environmental services in the emerging economy of sustainable development. Its theory has interdisciplinary bases. It is taking into account the achievements of many scientific fields, including spatial management,...
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Humankind faces the most serious challenge ever – sustainable development. A new paradigm based on respect of nature and awareness of natural mechanisms is needed. The concept of exergy and exergy based methods offers a unique potential to support this. Applications to real problems and...
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Use of the forest is the oldest form of human activity and also occurs if it takes place without the physical presence of man in the woods, becoming destructive action – intentional or unintentional, or creative activity – identifying and implementing specific needs. Use of forest functions...
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Industrial ecology (IE) intends to improve industrial processes in a way that the society benefits with as less damage of the environment as possible. As a concept it gives responses to environmental problems in the field of industry and technology and aims to enable management of human activity...
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The article presents the opportunities of implementation of market mechanisms in environment protection and using its supplies. Launching market allocation mechanism can have two basic forms: market allocation based on principle of single auction, as well as based on principle of possible...
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In an effort to measure and track marine-dependent economic activities, the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has developed two statistical tools: The Economics: National Ocean Watch (ENOW) and the Marine Economy Satellite Account (MESA). In both efforts, the...
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In 1968, a paper appeared in the Science journal outlining a macroeconomic concept referring to the problem of common use of environmental resources. Its author, Garret Hardin, stated that the natural human desire to maximise individual economic benefits led to overexploitation of environmental...
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Economics for managing our depleting resources and biodiversity is imperative part of development, more so since …
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economic and ecological contributions to the study of biodiversity loss. We develop our analysis from a widely accepted … respect the economic approach towards biodiversity is based on this notion, and also reflect on the specific understanding of … describe in which way ecological and ecologicaleconomic approaches towards biodiversity are based on the idea of absolute …
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We explore the economic effects of biodiversity loss by developing an ecologically-founded model that captures how …, which depends, among other things, on the distribution of biodiversity losses across ecosystem functions. We discuss how … these fragility measures can help policymakers assess the risks induced by biodiversity loss and prioritize conservation …
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