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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...

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Biodiversity as an ecological safety condition : the European dimension

Rzeńca, Agnieszka - In: Comparative economic research : Central and Eastern Europe 18 (2015) 1, pp. 97-117

to protection of live natural resources to preserve biodiversity, which is essential for retaining the basic ecological … processes and providing the sustainability of usage of these resources. Consequently, protection of biodiversity is not only an … biodiversity protection from the perspective of the natural and economic sciences, and to describe the diversity of biodiversity …

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The role of agri-environmental contracts in saving biodiversity in the post-socialist Czech Republic

Pražan, Jaroslav; Theesfeld, Insa - 2014

achieve a higher level of biodiversity in protected landscapes. In particular, we analyse whether such types of contract … biodiversity. We analyse the determinants that allow for such a policy to be implemented more successfully. In addition, the …

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Computation of sparse and dense equilibrium strategies of evolutionary games

Hao, Yiping; Wu, Zhijun - In: Games 9 (2018) 3/46, pp. 1-15

The evolution of social or biological species can be modeled as an evolutionary game with the equilibrium strategies of the game as prediction for the ultimate distributions of species in population, when some species may survive with positive proportions, while others become extinct. We say a...

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Article safeguards, standards, and the science-policy interfaces of REDD+ : greening land use through forest-based mitigation in Costa Rica?

Wallbott, Linda; Rosendal, G. Kristin - In: The journal of environment & development : a review of … 27 (2018) 1, pp. 99-125

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The local impacts of World Bank development projects near sites of conservation significance

Buchanan, Graeme M.; Parks, Bradley; Donald, Paul F.; … - In: The journal of environment & development : a review of … 27 (2018) 3, pp. 299-322

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Cities and nature

Broitman, Dani; Czamanski, Daniel Z.; Malkinson, Dan - In: International review of environmental and resource economics 12 (2018) 1, pp. 47-83

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Happiness and environmental degradation : a global analysis

Majeed, Muhammad Tariq; Mumtaz, Shaista - In: Pakistan journal of commerce and social sciences 11 (2017) 3, pp. 753-772

This study contributes to the happiness-environment nexus by introducing the novel measures of environmental degradation such as species protection, marine protected areas and water quality unlike previous literature that mainly emphasized the importance of carbon dioxide emissions (CO2) in...

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Ecosystem functions of oil palm plantations : A review

Dislich, Claudia; Keyel, Alexander C.; Salecker, Jan; … - 2015

Oil palm plantations have expanded rapidly in the last decades. This large-scale land-use change has had great impacts on both the areas converted to oil palm and their surroundings. Howev-er, research on the impacts of oil palm agriculture is scattered and patchy, and no clear overview ex-ists....

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Opportunity cost estimation of ecosystem services

Ruijs, A.; Kortelainen, M.; Wossink, Ada; Schulp, C. J. E. - 2012

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