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Limits to substitution between ecosystem services and manufactured goods and implications for social discounting
Drupp, Moritz A. - 2016 - This version: March 29, 2016
This paper examines implications of limits to substitution for estimating substitutability between ecosystem services and manufactured goods and for social discounting. Based on a model that accounts for a subsistence requirement in the consumption of ecosystem services, we provide empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011446656
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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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Can monetary valuation undermine nature conservation? : evidence from a decision experiment
Rode, Julian; Le Menestrel, Marc; Cornelissen, Gert - 2015
Nature conservation scientists and practitioners have voiced the concern that a conservation discourse based on economic arguments and monetary valuation may undermine conservation efforts by eroding ("crowding out") the influence of other arguments for nature conservation. This paper presents...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279993
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Sustainable Growth and Modernization Under Environmental Hazard and Adaptation
Hritonenko, Natalia - 2014
We develop an aggregated model to study rational environmental adaptation policies that compensate negative consequences of certain environmental hazards and changes. The model distinguishes the three categories of adaptation measures that (a) compensate the decrease of the environmental amenity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013067831
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Development, Management and Forecasting in a Green Innovative Economy, Based on the Integral Dynamics Model in the Conditions of ‘Industry – 4.0’
Ramazanov, Sultan - 2020
In modern conditions of instability, systematic crises and global transformations the problem of developing methods and technologies for analysis, modeling, management, forecasting and decision making for stable development of viable socioeconomic systems has become the most important. These...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833432
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Nautical tourism, carrying capacity and environmental externality in the Lagoon of Marano and Grado
Silvestri, Francesco; Ghinoi, Stefano; Barone, Vincenzo - 2013 - Draft, June 2013
Tourism and environmental preservation are often conflicting activities, mainly in areas such as coastal lagoons, where seaside mass-tourism comes into contact with a very sensitive ecological system. In this paper we deal with a classical problem of both environmental and tourism economics, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010189333
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Economic inequality and the value of nature
Drupp, Moritz A.; Meya, Jasper N.; Baumgärtner, Stefan; … - 2017
Understanding what influences the value of nature is crucial for informing environmental policy. From a sustainability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011753358
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How to Pay for Saving Biodiversity
Barbier, Edward B. - 2018
The 1992 Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) was one of the first international environmental agreements negotiated. In the same year, the Global Environment Facility (GEF) for funding biodiversity conservation in developing countries was launched. Yet 25 years later, biological populations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012915188
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Ecological-Economic Viability as a Criterion of Strong Sustainability under Uncertainty
Baumgärtner, Stefan; Quaas, Martin F. - 2014
Strong sustainability, according to the common definition, requires that different natural and economic capital stocks … define strong sustainability under uncertainty in an operational manner we propose to use the concept of viability. Viability … viability as special cases. It provides an operational criterion of strong sustainability under a mild form of uncertainty and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014222509
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Nautical Tourism, Carrying Capacity and Environmental Externality in the Lagoon of Marano and Grado
Silvestri, Francesco; Ghinoi, Stefano; Barone, Vincenzo - 2013
Tourism and environmental preservation are often conflicting activities, mainly in areas such as coastal lagoons, where seaside mass-tourism comes into contact with a very sensitive ecological system. In this paper we deal with a classical problem of both environmental and tourism economics, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014153381