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Ecosystem functions of oil palm plantations : A review
Dislich, Claudia; Keyel, Alexander C.; Salecker, Jan; … - 2015
Oil palm plantations have expanded rapidly in the last decades. This large-scale land-use change has had great impacts on both the areas converted to oil palm and their surroundings. Howev-er, research on the impacts of oil palm agriculture is scattered and patchy, and no clear overview ex-ists....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325626
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Opportunity cost estimation of ecosystem services
Ruijs, A.; Kortelainen, M.; Wossink, Ada; Schulp, C. J. E. - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009659210
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Economic analysis, sustainability and environmental commons
Musu, Ignazio - 2013
issues: climate change and biodiversity. Involvement of governments and a reference framework provided by intergovernmental …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010223360
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Aid, environment, and climate change in Africa : the case of Senegal
Ngaido, Tidiane - 2014
The paper reviews the dynamics of the financing baseed its analysis on the rich dataset of AidData ranging over 1993-2010, with around 9,077 observations on projects funded in Senegal by various multilateral as well as bilateral donors. The study started in the same year as the establishment of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010228736
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Are diverse ecosystems more valuable? : a conceptual framework for economic valuation of biodiversity
Bartkowski, Bartosz - 2016
Biodiversity is an important environmental public good. However, the literature suggests that it is not clear how its … biodiversity value from the ecological and economic literatures and combines them to a comprehensive and consistent framework. It … is argued that biodiversity is the main carrier of insurance value, option value and spill-over value, and also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011504676
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Differences and similarities between ecological and economic models for biodiversity conservation
Drechsler, Martin; Grimma, Volker; Myšiak, Jaroslav; … - 2005
. To understand these differences, 60 models addressing issues relevant to biodiversity conservation have been selected …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010466983
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Estimating optimal conservation in agricultural landscapes when costs and benefits of conservation measures are heterogeneous in space and over time
Wätzold, Frank; Lienhoop, Nele; Drechsler, Martin; … - 2006
Designing agri-environmental schemes targeted at conservation poses the key question of how many financial resources should be allocated to address a particular aim such as the conservation of an endangered species. Economists can contribute to an answer by estimating the 'optimal level of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010467659
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Spatial differentiation of compensation payments for biodiversity enhancing land-use measures
Wätzold, Frank; Drechsler, Martin - 2002
Given that both the costs and the benefits of biodiversity-enhancing land-use measures are subject to spatial variation … with uniform payments for biodiversity-enhancing land-use measures to be assessed. A simple ecologicaleconomic model is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010467682
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The private and public insurance value of conservative biodiversity management
Baumgärtner, Stefan; Quaas, Martin F. - 2005
The ecological literature suggests that biodiversity reduces the variance of ecosystem services. Thus, conservative … biodiversity management has an insurance value to risk-averse users of ecosystem services. We analyze a conceptual ecological … and external effects of management effort on biodiversity; and (iii) the welfare loss due to free-riding may decrease or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010468970
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Why be wasteful when preserving a valuable resource? : a review article on the cost-effectiveness of European biodiversity conservation policy
Wätzold, Frank; Schwerdtner Máñez Costa, Kathleen - 2004
Issues related to the cost-effectiveness of biodiversity conservation policies have not yet been prominent in European …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010468975