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Assessing the impact of biodiversity on tourism flows: A model for tourist behaviour and its policy implications
Macagno, Giulia; Loureiro, Maria; Nunes, Paulo A. L.D.; … - 2009
This analysis provides an example of how biodiversity can be measured by means of different indicators, and how the …. The first step of the analysis required the construction of biodiversity indicators suitable for developing a biodiversity … of the biodiversity and landscape indicators included in the analysis turn out to be statistically significant in …
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Chinese urbanites and the preservation of rare species in remote parts of the country : the example of Eaglewood
Ahlheim, Michael; Frör, Oliver; Langenberger, Gerhard; … - 2014
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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Economic land use, ecosystem services and microfounded species dynamics
Eichner, Thomas; Pethig, Rüdiger - 2004
In an integrated economy-ecosystem model humans choose their land use and leave the residual land as habitat for three species forming a food chain. The size of habitat determines the diversity and abundance of species. That biodiversity generates, in turn, a flow of ecosystem services with...
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Economic/Ecological Tradeoffs Among Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity Conservation
Hussain, Abul Maala - 2013
An integrated economic/ecological model is developed to address tradeoffs between biodiversity conservation and two marketable rangeland ecosystem services: cattle grazing and elk hunting. The ecology is represented by an eleven species food web in which individual optimizing plants and animals...
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Managing the biodiversity impacts of fertiliser and pesticide use : overview and insights from trends and policies across selected OECD countries
Sud, Megha - 2020
This paper reviews the impacts and costs of pesticide and fertiliser pollution as well as the policy responses to counter these in selected OECD countries. More specifically, the paper begins with an overview of the main biodiversity and health impacts of excess pesticide and fertiliser. In...
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Effects of institutional distrust on value estimates of stated preference surveys in developing countries : a choice experiment on conserving biodiversity within agricultural lands...
Manhique, Henrique; Wätzold, Frank - In: Q open : a journal of agricultural, climate, … 4 (2024) 1, pp. 1-25
The use of stated preference surveys for the valuation of environmental goods in developing countries has to take into account that there is substantial public distrust towards institutions providing environmental goods under valuation. Thus, high protest responses and low-value estimates may...
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Local communities' perspectives on ecological restoration of native plant species : evidence from Dlhi's Suthern Rdge
Gupta, Shreya; Das, Sukanya; Rahut, Dil Bahadur - 2024
Human activities and natural disturbances have significantly damaged ecosystems, resulting in a loss of biodiversity and creating a need for ecological restoration. Urban forests, in particular, are impacted by invasive species such as Prosopis juliflora, which compete with native species and...
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Poorer, but richer : an ecosystem services account for Campania, Calabria and Sicily
La Notte, Alessandra; Maes, Joachim; Vallecillo, Sara - In: Italian review of agricultural economics 75 (2020) 2, pp. 3-12
Ecosystems deliver value to people and the economy through ecosystem services. The Joint Research Centre of the European Commission has quantified the use of ecosystem services by the main economic sectors and households at EU level. In this paper, we downscaled the extraction of six ecosystem...
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Urban green : integrating ecosystem extent and condition as a basis for ecosystem accounts : examples from the Oslo region
Garnåsjordet, Per Arild; Steinnes, Margrete; … - 2020
The article enhances the knowledge base for assessment of urban ecosystem services, within UN System of Environmental-Economic Accounting Experimental Ecosystem Accounting (SEEA EEA), which is based on spatial extent accounts (area of ecosystems) and biophysical condition accounts (ecological...
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Modelling natural capital : a proposal for a mixed multi-criteria approach to assign management priorities to ecosystem services
Castro-Pardo, Mónica de; Fernández Martínez, Pascual; … - In: Contemporary economics 14 (2020) 1, pp. 22-37
Investment in natural capital is increasingly necessary and urgent considering the increasing loss of global bio- diversity and the associated social and economic losses. Ecosystem services are tools for quantifying the stock of natural capital and there is great concern about their assessment...
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