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Payment for ecosystem services in the Bolivian sub-Andean humid forest
Vásquez, Felipe; Ibarnegaray, Veronica; Ponce Oliva, … - In: The journal of environment & development : a review of … 25 (2016) 3, pp. 306-331
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Chapter 25 Agriculture and ecosystem services
Heal, Geoffrey M.; Small, Arthur A. - In: Handbook of agricultural economics : volume 2, part A, …, (pp. 1341). 2002
A broad range of agriculture-environment interactions can be organized around the concept of agriculture as a producer and consumer of ecosystem services . Viewed as capital assets, ecosystems embody production technologies that are valuable, complex, and often poorly understood. The quantity...
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Economic land use, ecosystem services and microfounded species dynamics
Eichner, Thomas; Pethig, Rüdiger - 2004
species forming a food chain. The size of habitat determines the diversity and abundance of species. That biodiversity …
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International willingness to pay for the protection of the Amazon rainforest
Siikamäki, Juha V.; Krupnick, Alan J.; Strand, Jon; … - 2019
rationale for Amazon protection: the valuation of its biodiversity and forests as natural heritage to the international …
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How should we incentivize private landowners to "produce" more biodiversity?
Hanley, Nick; Banerjee, Simanti; Lennox, Gareth D.; … - In: Oxford review of economic policy 28 (2012) 1, pp. 93-113
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Economics of ecosystem restoration
Mirzabaev, Alisher; Wuepper, David - In: Annual review of resource economics 15 (2023), pp. 329-350
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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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Chapter 2. Ecosystem Dynamics
Levin, Simon A.; Pacala, Stephen W. - In: Handbook of environmental economics : volume 1, …, (pp. 61-95). 2003
From ecosystems we derive food and fiber, fuel and pharmaceuticals. Ecosystems mediate local and regional climates, stabilize soils, purify water, and in general provide a nearly endless list of services essential to life as we know it. To understand how to manage these services it is essential...
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The private and public insurance value of conservative biodiversity management
Baumgärtner, Stefan; Quaas, Martin F. - 2005
The ecological literature suggests that biodiversity reduces the variance of ecosystem services. Thus, conservative … biodiversity management has an insurance value to risk-averse users of ecosystem services. We analyze a conceptual ecological … and external effects of management effort on biodiversity; and (iii) the welfare loss due to free-riding may decrease or …
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