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Chapter 29 The Economics of Biodiversity
Polasky, Stephen; Costello, Christopher; Solow, Andrew - In: Handbook of environmental economics : volume 3, …, (pp. 1517-1560). 2005
The conservation of biodiversity is a major environmental issue, one that promises to remain at or near the top of the … role to play in helping to develop and evaluate conservation strategies. Because biodiversity is at risk in large part … affairs, not from better biology alone. Economists can help set priorities to allocate scarce conservation resources where …
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Pobreza, Deforestación y Pérdida de la Biodiversidad en Guatemala
Loening, Ludger J.; Markussen, Michael - 2003
Integrated Conservation and Development Projects (ICDPs) within the countryside. In particular, the paper concludes that for the … of a development strategy that tries to combine biodiversity conservation within a framework of sustainable economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324188
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Pobreza, deforestación y pérdida de la biodiversidad en Guatemala : un análisis empírico y algunas sugerencias de política económica
Löning, Ludger J.; Markussen, Michael - 2003
Integrated Conservation and Development Projects (ICDPs) within the countryside. In particular, the paper concludes that for the … of a development strategy that tries to combine biodiversity conservation within a framework of sustainable economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011518228
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Environmental Safeguard and Sustainable Development : An Insight into Payments for Ecosystem Services
Belluomini, Dario - 2016
This paper presents a thorough reflection on Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) programs, which may be viewed as the most innovative tools of the ‘environmental policy toolkit'. These are incentive-based mechanisms, compensating landowners to manage the natural resources under their control...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012990978
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The demand for voluntary carbon sequestration : experimental evidence from a reforestation project in Germany
Bartels, Lara; Kesternich, Martin; Löschel, Andreas - 2021
With the increasing recognition of the use of reforestation measures as a complement to conventional carbon emissions avoidance technologies it is important to understand the market valuation of local forest carbon sinks for climate change mitigation. We conducted a framed-field experiment among...
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Green procurement through Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification in the private sector : perceptions and willingness to buy of private companies from Romania
Petrescu, Dacinia Crina; Bran, Florina; Radulescu, … - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 22 (2020) 53, pp. 42-56
Companies can contribute to the achievement of the sustainability goals through their procurement function when they opt for green procurement. In the current paper, the authors focused on the procurement of Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified products. Having known that attitudes...
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WeChat - using social media for the assessment of tourist preferences for environmental improvements in China
Ahlheim, Michael; Neidhardt, Jan; Siepmann, Ute; Yu, Xiaomin - 2018
Environmental valuation studies with tourists have been very popular already over a long period of time. Tourists are an important stakeholder group with respect to the decision if some environmental project in a tourist region should be realized or not. Typically such studies are organized as...
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Conceptualising Environmental Collective Action : Why Gender Matters
Agarwal, B. - 2014
This paper demonstrates how institutions for natural resource management (such as community forestry groups), which appear to be participative, equitable and efficient, can be found lacking on all three counts from a gender perspective. It also examines possible gender differences in social...
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The Role of Risk in Targeting Payments for Environmental Services
Alix‐Garcia, Jennifer; de Janvry, Alain; Sadoulet, … - 2005
This paper discusses the gain in efficiency from including deforestation risk as a targeting criterion in payments for environmental services (PES) programs. We contrast two payment schemes that we simulate using data from Mexican common property forests: a flat payment scheme with a cap on...
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Economic Incentives for Watershed Protection : A Report on an Ongoing Study of Arenal, Costa Rica
Aylward, Bruce; Echeverria, Jaime; Barbier, Edward B. - 2013
conservation of tropical forests. A number of studies have explored the local, national and global benefits generated by non … often cited as an economic justification of conservation activities is the watershed protection function provided by … tropical forests. Soil and water conservation may yield benefits to land-owners and alleviate damage to downstream economic …
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