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The impact of the Russian-Ukrainian war on Europe's forest-based bioeconomy
Lööf, Hans; Stephan, Andreas - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 91 (2022) 3, pp. 63-82
balance between forests as carbon sink, habitat for biodiversity conservation and functional ecosystems on one hand, and on …
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An evaluation of protected area policies in the European Union
Grupp, Tristan Earle; Mishra, Prakash; Reynaert, Mathias; … - 2023
biodiversity. This paper uses the staggered introduction of protected-area policies between 1985 and 2020 to study the selection of …
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Relative and absolute scarcity of nature : assessing the roles of economics and ecology for biodiversity conservation
Baumgärtner, Stefan; Becker, Christian; Faber, Malte; … - 2004
economic and ecological contributions to the study of biodiversity loss. We develop our analysis from a widely accepted … respect the economic approach towards biodiversity is based on this notion, and also reflect on the specific understanding of … describe in which way ecological and ecologicaleconomic approaches towards biodiversity are based on the idea of absolute …
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Integrating the value of natural capital in evidence-based policy making
Banerjee, Onil; Vargas, Renato; Cicowiez, Martín - 2020
This paper describes how Natural Capital Accounting (NCA) can be integrated into economy wide analytical frameworks to enhance evidence based decision making. Examples from applications of the Integrated Environmental Economic Modelling (IEEM) Platform show how explicitly accounting for the...
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Organic farming and biodiversity
Roșu, Elisabeta - In: Agrarian economy and rural development : trends and …, (pp. 122-129). 2023
environmental protection, through the conservation of soil, improvement of water quality and support to biodiversity. The present … organic farming provides a favorable framework for maintaining biodiversity, using friendly, economically and socially …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014547036
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Roads & SDGs, tradeoffs and synergies : learning from Brazil’s Amazon in distinguishing frontiers
Pfaff, Alexander S. P.; Robalino, Juan David; Reis, … - 2018
To reduce SDG tradeoffs in infrastructure provision, and to inform searches for SDG synergies, the authors show that roads’ impacts on Brazilian Amazon forests varied significantly across frontiers. Impacts varied predictably with prior development – prior roads and prior deforestation –...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011806397
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Roads & SDGs, tradeoffs and synergies : learning from Brazil's Amazon in distinguishing frontiers
Pfaff, Alexander S. P.; Robalino, Juan David; Reis, … - 2017
To inform the search for SDG synergies in infrastructure provision, and to reduce SDG tradeoffs, the authors show that road impacts on Brazilian Amazon forests have varied significantly across settings. Forest loss varied predictably with prior development - both prior roads and prior...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011807977
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Roads & SDGs, tradeoffs and synergies : learning from Brazil's Amazon in distinguishing frontiers
Pfaff, Alexander S. P.; Robalino, Juan David; Reis, … - 2017
To inform the search for SDG synergies in infrastructure provision, and to reduce SDG tradeoffs, the authors show that road impacts on Brazilian Amazon forests have varied significantly across settings. Forest loss varied predictably with prior development - both prior roads and prior...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011731830
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Characterizing commercial cattle farms in Namibia: Risk, management and sustainability
Olbrich, Roland; Quaas, Martin F.; Baumgärtner, Stefan - 2012
Commercial cattle farming in Namibia, a prime example of livestock farming in semi-arid rangelands, is subject to a variety of risks, predominant among which is precipitation risk. At the same time it suffers from rangeland degradation that is at least partly due to inadequate management. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294486
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Quo vadis European biofuel policy: The case of rapeseed biodiesel
Pehnelt, Gernot; Vietze, Christoph - 2013
The European Union´s (EU) Renewable Energy Directive (RED) continues to be the focus of much debate over the validity of biofuel sustainability. The debate is driven in part by ongoing concerns of transparency and regional variations of emissions from feedstock cultivation and processing. In a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010323887