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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 services for three Southern Italy regions in 2012: Campania …
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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 …, extent and condition accounts are not separate approaches as suggested by SEEA EEA but should be integrated for ecosystem …
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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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Biodiversity policy response indicators
Van Winkle, Christina; Karousakis, Katia; Bark, Rosalind; … - 2015
This paper reviews a number of OECD data sources to examine their potential for establishing indicators which can contribute to monitoring progress towards two of the 2011-2020 Aichi Biodiversity Targets under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), namely Target 3 on Incentives and Target...
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Ecosystem Services and Distributive Justice : Considering Access Rights to Ecosystem Services in Theories of Distributive Justice
Sievers-Glotzbach, Stefanie - 2012
As the increasing loss of ecosystem services severely affects life perspectives of today's poor and future persons …, governing access to, and use of, ecosystem services in an intragenerational and intergenerational just way is an urgent issue …. Therefore, I argue that theories of distributive justice should consider the distribution of access rights to ecosystem services …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013114772
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Ecosystems and Human Health : The Local Benefits of Forest Cover in Indonesia
Garg, Teevrat - 2019
This paper documents the effect of primary forest cover loss on increased incidence of malaria. The evidence is consistent with an ecological response and land use change, anti-malarial programs or migration cannot explain the effect of forest cover loss on increased malarial incidence. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012901463
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Ecosystems and Human Health : The Local Benefits of Forest Cover in Indonesia
Garg, Teevrat - 2019
This paper documents the effect of primary forest cover loss on increased incidence of malaria. The evidence is consistent with an ecological response. I show that land use change, anti-malarial programs or migration cannot explain the effect of primary forest cover loss on increased malarial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012860523
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Key ingredients, challenges and lessons from biodiversity mainstreaming in South Africa : people, products, process
Manuel, Jeff; Maze, Kristal; Driver, Mandy; Stephens, Anthea - 2016
This paper provides an in-depth review of experiences and insights from mainstreaming biodiversity and development in South Africa. More specifically, it describes how biodiversity considerations have been mainstreamed in five key sectors/areas, namely: land use planning, mining, water,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011588348
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Chapter 3. The nature of natural capital and ecosystem income
Fenichel, Eli P.; Abbott, Joshua K.; Yun, Seong Do - In: Handbook of environmental economics : Volume 4, (pp. 85-142). 2018
The natural capital concept is generating broad interest that extends well beyond economists. Economics has a long history of applying capital theory to natural resources. However, measurement of the value of ecosystems has mostly focused on income flows rather than valuing stocks of natural...
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Valuating Natural Resources and Ecosystem Services : Systematic Review of Methods in Use
Yurak, Vera - 2022
The relevance of an ecosystem approach, which involves addressing ecosystems as an object of research, economically … evaluating ecosystem services, and including the existing variety of evaluation methods and their classifications for the … by refining approaches and methods for the economic evaluation of natural resources and ecosystem services. The research …
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