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This paper documents the effect of primary forest cover loss on increased incidence of malaria. The evidence is consistent with an ecological response and land use change, anti-malarial programs or migration cannot explain the effect of forest cover loss on increased malarial incidence. The...
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This paper documents the effect of primary forest cover loss on increased incidence of malaria. The evidence is consistent with an ecological response. I show that land use change, anti-malarial programs or migration cannot explain the effect of primary forest cover loss on increased malarial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012860523
The present research has been developed within the EU FP7 VECTORS project (http://www.marine-vectors.eu/). The main scope of the project (2011 - 2015) has been to evaluate, from a multilateral perspective, drivers, pressures and vectors of changes in marine life of three main European seas...
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The present research has been developed within the EU FP7 VECTORS project. The main scope of the project (2011-2015) has been to evaluate, from a multilateral perspective, drivers, pressures and vectors of changes in marine life of three main European seas (Baltic, Western Mediterranean, North),...
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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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Biodiversity loss reduces ecosystems productivity generating negative impacts on the global economy. Even though the … economy is dependent on biodiversity or its ecological processes, few companies develop Biodiversity Conservation Actions (BCA …) to benefit ecosystems, despite the growing number of sustainable companies worldwide. Here, we investigated the …
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Based on a Contingent Valuation study in Shanghai we assess people's willingness to contribute personally to the alleviation of environmental problems occurring in distant parts of the country. One split of our survey assessed Shanghai residents' willingness to pay for the preservation of...
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The theory for a general equilibrium ecosystem model that can include large number of interacting species is presented. Features include: 1) individual plants and animals are assumed to behave as if they are maximizing their net energy intake, 2) short and long-run equilibriums are obtained, 3)...
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ecosystems that people obtain in the literature became referred as ecosystem services. Ecosystem services are seen as an … services are providing services (products which obtained from ecosystems), regulating services (benefits which obtained from … the regulation of ecosystem processes), cultural services (intangible benefits that people obtain from ecosystems) and …
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