By using ad hoc value transfer protocols, this paper offers a methodological contribution and provides accurate per hectare estimates of the economic value of some selected ecosystem services for all forest biomes in the world, identified following the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment taxonomy...

Darwin's "Origin" launched evolution into theoretical orbit and it continues to influence its course. This magnum opus detailed a tenable solution to the most fundamental problem of human existence, and although this Promethean vision contains sundry trivial flaws, there is, however, one...

In the neoclassic root theory it tries to resolve the environmental and social contradiction between economic growth of mobility and the environmental and social limits through the internalization of the denominated external costs of transport. Both the theoretical point of view and the...

We explore the economic effects of biodiversity loss by developing an ecologically-founded model that captures how different species interact to deliver the ecosystem services that complement other factors of economic production. Aggregate ecosystem services are produced by combining several...

This Encyclopedia entry aims to review the current state of the art on the economics of happiness. It is organized into past, present and future research. The past research section focuses on the moral philosophical theory of utilitarianism and the ‘method dispute’ in the late 18th and early...

Este trabajo calcula por primera vez dos índices sintéticos para las Comunidades Autónomas españolas: uno de bienestar y otro de sostenibilidad. El punto de partida ha sido el Índice de la Buena Vida (Better Life Index, de la OCDE) y un Índice de Sostenibilidad (Happy Planet Index, basado...

Air pollution constitutes one of the main environmental problems in many countries. This paper uses the life satisfaction approach to environmental valuation (LSA) to investigate whether individuals habituate to air pollution and if a potential habituation effect influences the marginal rate of...

The paper critically examines the status of the sustainability discourse and sustainability politics against the backdrop of considerations about the meaning of justice in the context of sustainability. We argue that the preservation of the natural basis of life is by itself a requirement of...

Italian Abstract: A partire dalle condizioni di operatività, dell'impatto ambientale e delle esternalità negative che il complesso siderurgico genera sulla salute e sulla collettività (attività produttive, territorio e cittadino), la trattazione muove dall'analisi di scenario attuale e della...

This paper addresses the trade-off between unfavourable air pollution levels and favourable weather conditions for selecting a date for the staging of an outdoor event. For an event date that has been fixed, it presents a personal preference-based data-driven decision framework for individual...