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Development and application of a new Forestation Index : global forestation patterns and drivers
Benedek, Zsófia; Fertő, Imre - 2013
cover increased between 1990 and 2010. As "forests" is a heterogeneous group, a biodiversity-corrected Forestation Index is … also introduced to distinguish between different forms of "environmentally valuable" new forests (that are expected to have … forestation and different types should be acknowledged - treatment of forests as a homogenous category is an oversimplification. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009777744
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Exports and externalities : the other side of trade and ecological risk
Warziniack, Travis; Finno, David; Shogren, Jason F.; … - 2009
This paper develops a general equilibrium model to measure welfare effects of taxes for correcting environmental externalities caused by domestic trade, focusing on exter- nalities that arise through exports. Externalities from exports come from a number of sources. Domestically owned ships,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003832394
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Institutions and preferences determine resilience of ecological-economic systems
Quaas, Martin F.; Baumgärtner, Stefan; Derissen, Sandra; … - 2008
We perform a model analysis to study the origins of limited resilience in ecological-economic systems. We demonstrate that the resilience properties of the ecosystem are essentially determined by the management institutions and consumers' preferences for ecosystem services. In particular, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793404
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Biodiversity and geography
Rauscher, Michael; Barbier, Edward - 2007
The paper combines an economic-geography model of agglomeration and periphery with a model of species diversity and looks at optimal policies of biodiversity conservation. The subject of the paper is "natural" biodiversity, which is inevitably impaired by anthropogenic impact. Thus, the economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003886036
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The economic insurance value of ecosystem resilience
Baumgärtner, Stefan; Strunz, Sebastian - 2009
Ecosystem resilience, i.e. an ecosystem's ability to maintain its basic functions and controls under disturbances, is often interpreted as insurance: by decreasing the probability of future drops in the provision of ecosystem services, resilience insures risk-averse ecosystem users against...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003872506
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The evolutionary approach to entropy : reconciling Georgescu-Roegen’s natural philosophy with the maximum entropy framework
Herrmann-Pillath, Carsten - 2010
In Georgescu-Roegen’s classical, though controversial discussion of entropy in relation to economics, the dualism of mechanical and subjective time plays a pivotal role. I argue that this fundamental distinction also inheres modern approaches to maximum entropy. Following Searle, I introduce...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003979784
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Revisiting the Gaia hypothesis : Maximum Entropy, Kauffman's "Fourth Law" and physiosemeiosis
Herrmann-Pillath, Carsten - 2011
Recently, Kleidon suggested a restatement of the Gaia hypothesis based on Maximum Entropy approaches to the Earth system. Refuting conceptions of Gaia as a homeostatic system, Gaia is seen as a non-equilibrium thermodynamic system which continuously moves away from equilibrium, driven by maximum...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008859633
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Rethinking evolution, entropy and economics : a triadic conceptual framework for the maximum entropy principle as applied to the growth of knowledge
Herrmann-Pillath, Carsten - 2010
Recently, the maximum entropy principle has been applied to explain the evolution of complex non-equilibrium systems, such as the Earth system. I argue that it can also be fruitfully deployed to reconsider the classical treatment of entropy in economics by Georgescu-Roegen, if the growth of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003989394
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REDD and international organizations
Giannini, Valentina - 2010
Climate change mitigation can be achieved, according to many, by means of Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in the Tropics (REDD). Within the climate change policy debate we thus find discussions on how to reduce GHG emissions by designing appropriate REDD programmes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008780425
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Mapping of forest biodiversity values : a plural perspective
Ojea, Elena; Nunes, Paulo A. L. D.; Loureiro, Maria - 2009
-Analysis ; Market Valuation ; Non-Market Valuation ; Forests …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008809096