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Bosques en Bolivia : una estimación espacial de los costos de la deforestación

Gonzalez Rocabado, Alejandra - 2019

Deforestation in Bolivia has increased considerably during the last few decades, which causes carbon dioxide emissions, biodiversity loss, changes to the hydrologic cycle, among others. This study pretends to estimate the impacts and costs of that deforestation. Since each variablehas its own...

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Communications on climate change and biodiversity loss with local populations : exploring best-practices and postcolonial moments in eight case studies from across the globe

Ansari, Dawud; Schönenberg, Regine; Abud, Melissa; … - 2021

Climate change and biodiversity loss trigger policies worldwide, many of which target or impact local communities. Although research, international development, and policy implementation (and, thus, success in fighting both threats) require thoughtful consideration and communication of the...

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Development and application of a new Forestation Index : global forestation patterns and drivers

Benedek, Zsófia; Fertő, Imre - 2013

cover increased between 1990 and 2010. As "forests" is a heterogeneous group, a biodiversity-corrected Forestation Index is … also introduced to distinguish between different forms of "environmentally valuable" new forests (that are expected to have … forestation and different types should be acknowledged - treatment of forests as a homogenous category is an oversimplification. …

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The greener, the happier? : the effects of urban green and abandoned areas on residential well-being

Krekel, Christian; Kolbe, Jens; Wüstemann, Henry - 2015

This paper investigates the effects of urban green and abandoned areas on residential well-being in major German cities, using panel data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the time period between 2000 and 2012 and cross-section data from the European Urban Atlas (EUA) for the year...

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Valuation of EU agricultural landscape

Ciaian, Pavel; Gómez y Paloma, Sergio - 2011

The present paper provides a meta-analysis of agricultural landscape valuation studies and through the estimated benefit transfer function it projects the value of EU landscape. The analyses are based on information from more than thirty European and non-European studies which use a stated...

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A global map of costal recreation values : results from a spatially explicit based meta-analysis

Ghermandi, Andrea; Nunes, Paulo A. L. D. - 2011

The welfare dimension of the recreational services provided by global coastal ecosystems is examined through a meta-analytical regression-based valuation approach. First, we construct a global, state-of-the-art database of stated and revealed preference estimates on coastal recreation, which...

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Controlling for biases in primary valuation studies : a meta-analysis of international coral reef values

Abdullah, Sabah; Rosenberger, Randall S. - 2012

This paper updates the existing meta-analysis in coral reef recreation taking into account the previous work of Brander et al. (2007) but considering some stated preference biases and/or effects. The present meta-analysis uses twice the number of observations as the previous one and sheds more...

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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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Thermodynamik - grundlegende Einsichten für ein Verständnis von Umweltproblemen

Faber, Malte; Rudolf, Marco; Frick, Marc; Becker, Mi-Yong - 2023

In diesem Beitrag stellen wir einen Weg vor, der es erlaubt, grundsätzliche Aussagen darüber zu treffen, dass wirtschaftliches Handeln schädliche Auswirkungen auf die Umwelt mit sich bringt. Diese Auswirkungen sind naturwissenschaftlich bedingt und treten insbesondere in der...

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Does irrigation development mitigate weather extremes' impacts and reduce poverty? : evidence from rural Southeast Asia

Do, Manh Hung; Nguyen, Trung Thanh - 2023

Water is critical for agriculture in developing countries and climate change has created extreme weather events that push farmers into poverty. In this study, we first examine the role of yearround irrigation at village level in ensuring irrigation at household level and helping farmers to cope...

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