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Protecting Natural Capital Through Ecosystem Service Districts
Heal, Geoffrey M.; Daily, Gretchen; Ehrlich, Paul; … - 2014
geographical area or district. Given the prevalence and importance of districts for soil conservation, resource conservation, flood … forestation, development versus conservation, etc. In examining the geographical, economic, and legal obstacles in designing ESDs … services are under threat and the potential benefits of managing their conservation through ESDs. Part II lays out the basic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014125054
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Protecting Natural Capital Through Ecosystem Service Districts
Heal, Geoffrey M.; Daily, Gretchen; Ehrlich, Paul; … - 2014
geographical area or district. Given the prevalence and importance of districts for soil conservation, resource conservation, flood … forestation, development versus conservation, etc. In examining the geographical, economic, and legal obstacles in designing ESDs … services are under threat and the potential benefits of managing their conservation through ESDs. Part II lays out the basic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014126986
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Complementarity, impatience, and the resilience of natural-dependent economies
Quaas, Martin F.; Soest, Daniël Pieter van; … - 2011
interpretation and analysis of resilience, from viewing (limited) resilience as an objective property of the economy-environment … interpretation and analysis of resilience, from viewing (limited) resilience as an objective property of the economy-environment …
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Complementarity, impatience, and the resilience of natural-dependent economies
Quaas, Martin F.; van Soest, Daan; Baumgärtner, Stefan - 2011
interpretation and analysis of resilience, from viewing (limited) resilience as an objective property of the economy-environment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286617
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Valuing nature, paying for ecosystem services and realizing social justice : a response to Matulis (2014)
Corbera, Esteve - In: Ecological economics : the transdisciplinary journal of … 110 (2015), pp. 154-157
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Chapter 25 Agriculture and ecosystem services
Heal, Geoffrey M.; Small, Arthur A. - In: Handbook of agricultural economics : volume 2, part A, …, (pp. 1341). 2002
A broad range of agriculture-environment interactions can be organized around the concept of agriculture as a producer …
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Chapter 3. The nature of natural capital and ecosystem income
Fenichel, Eli P.; Abbott, Joshua K.; Yun, Seong Do - In: Handbook of environmental economics : Volume 4, (pp. 85-142). 2018
The natural capital concept is generating broad interest that extends well beyond economists. Economics has a long history of applying capital theory to natural resources. However, measurement of the value of ecosystems has mostly focused on income flows rather than valuing stocks of natural...
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Natural Resource Restoration
Kanner, Allan - 2017
Public trustees at the state, federal, and tribal level are tasked with ensuring that those responsible for destroying or damaging natural resources sufficiently compensate the public for its loss. Those trustees have the fiduciary duty to maintain and restore the natural resources within the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014135631
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Intergenerational transfers, lifetime welfare and resource preservation
Valente, Simone - 2006
This paper analyzes overlapping-generations models where natural capital is owned by selfish agents. Transfers in favor of young agents reduce the rate of depletion and increase output growth. It is shown that intergenerational transfers may be preferred to laissez-faire by an indefinite...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003459197
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Intergenerational Transfers, Lifetime Welfare and Resource Preservation
Valente, Simone - 2007
This paper analyzes overlapping-generations models where natural capital is owned by selfish agents. Transfers in favor of young agents reduce the rate of depletion and increase output growth. It is shown that intergenerational transfers may be preferred to laissez-faire by an indefinite...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014054320