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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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Indicators on terrestrial and marine protected areas : methodology and results for OECD and G20 countries
Mackie, Alexander; Sentier, Sarah; Haščič, Ivan; … - 2017
better understand the extent and focus of countries’ conservation efforts. …
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Effects of Ending Payments for Ecosystem Services : Removal Does not Crowd Prior Conservation Out
Moros, Lina; Vélez, María Alejandra; Pfaff, Alexander; … - 2020
We implemented a decision experiment in the field with rural peasants in Colombia to test the effects of introducing then partially or totally removing Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES). We consider individual and collective payments and different rules for removal. We find that there is...
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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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Long-term land cover changes and ecosystem services variation : have the anthropogenic transformations degraded human well-being in Italy?
Marino, Davide; Palmieri, Margherita; Marucci, Angelo; … - In: Italian review of agricultural economics 77 (2022) 1, pp. 7-23
Landscape composition has a crucial role in determining ecosystem functioning and human well-being. Human activities (e.g. urban expansion or agricultural intensification) have strongly modified the natural environment and ecosystem integrity. This paper presents an exemplary application of the...
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The economic value of ecosystem services of irrigation : a choice experiment for the monetary evaluation of irrigation canals and fontanili in Lombardy
Ruberto, Myriam; Branca, Giacomo; Troiano, Stefania; … - In: Italian review of agricultural economics 77 (2022) 2, pp. 27-39
The Water Framework Directive (WFD) has introduced economic principles for water resource management, including the environmental cost recovery on the basis of the polluter pays principle (PPP). Agriculture, as a potential driver of pressures on water bodies, can produce environmental costs....
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Impacts of reforestation on stabilization of riverine water levels in South Korea
Yoon, Jaehyun; Baak, Saang Joon; Seo, Min Young; Kim, … - In: KDI-journal of economic policy 44 (2022) 4, pp. 1-24
We investigate how reforestation contributed to stabilization of riverine water levels in South Korea. For the purpose, we estimate an equation capturing dynamic relationships among rainfall, upstream-area tree stock, and downstream water levels in three river systems of Hongcheon, Mangyeong,...
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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
decision-making processes to properly channel investment and optimize the costs associated with conservation. This paper … results show that conservation policies should be primarily directed towards lifecycle maintenance and water conditions …. Depending on the vulnerability of the services, conservation poli- cies should be channeled towards provisioning services …
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