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

Benedek, Zsofia; Ferto, Imre - Közgazdaság-tudományi Intézet, Közgazdaság- és … - 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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Recreational, cultural and aesthetic services from estuarine and coastal ecosystems

Ghermandi, Andrea; Nunes, Paulo A. L. D.; Portela, Rosimeiry - 2009

The role of economic analysis in guiding the sustainable development of estuarine and coastal ecosystems is investigated based on a comprehensive review of the literature on the valuation of the recreation, cultural and aesthetic services. The implications of the findings for the sustainable...

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Pricing Nature

Barbier, Edward B. - 2012

The growing literature on ecosystem services suggests that these benefits are the direct or indirect contributions that ecosystems make to the well-being of human populations. Although the approach to valuing ecosystem services seems straightforward, in practice there are a number of challenges....

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Valuing ecosystem services in general equilibrium

Carbone, Jared; Smith, V. Kerry - Department of Economics, University of Calgary - 2010

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Recreational, Cultural and Aesthetic Services from Estuarine and Coastal Ecosystems

Nunes, Paulo A.L.D.; Portela, Rosimeiry; Rao, Nalini; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009

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The Value of Native Biodiversity Enhancement in New Zealand: A Case Study of the Greater Wellington Area

Kaval, Pamela; Yao, Richard; Parminter, Terry - Department of Economics, Waikato Management School - 2007

New Zealand’s biodiversity consists of over 80,000 native plants, animals and fungi, many of which are indigenous and located on private property. To enhance native biodiversity and discourage activities that may deplete it, policies can be introduced that can encourage individual...

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Valuing Ecosystem Services: A New Paradigm Shift

Kaval, Pamela - Department of Economics, Waikato Management School - 2006

The ways in which economists value natural resources has been, and continues to be, a constantly evolving process. At first, only transactions that took place in the marketplace were considered. However, it was not long until it was realised that this concept was an incomplete way to value...

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Economic Value of Cultural Landscape, Non-Production Services of a Territory, and Non-Market Valuation Methods. A Survey Focused on Determining which Landscape Functions are Valuat...

Švejdarová, Hana; Cudlínová, Eva - In: Acta Oeconomica Pragensia 2013 (2013) 5, pp. 64-81

Almost every landscape fulfils various important functions for human society. Nevertheless, planning does not always allocate individual functions the significance that they ought to receive in comparison with others. A typical example is undervaluing landscape services that cannot be expressed...

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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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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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