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high levels of food security. Conversely, a tendency toward specialization likely reduces biodiversity and significantly …
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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 biophysical condition accounts (ecological...
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This paper advocates consistently defined units of account to measure the contributions of nature to human welfare. We argue that such units have to date not been defined by environmental accounting advocates and that the term “ecosystem services” is too ad hoc to be of practical use in...
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Green gross domestic product (green GDP) is meant to account for nature’s value on an equal footing with the market economy. Several problems bedevil green GDP, however. One is that nature does not come prepackaged in units like cars, houses, and bread. Even worse, green GDP requires...
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Wetlands are commonly understood to have the capacity to reduce the loads of excess nutrients, pathogens, sediments, and other contaminants generated by various activities in their catchment areas. However, quantifying these “services” is difficult and most research in this field has...
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semi-natural pastureland. However, the program may have negative impacts on landscape aesthetics and biodiversity. We … from carbon sequestration and biodiversity seem more constant across space. The net present value of all land use … substantial hypothetical bias in benefit estimates and for cost increases. Results indicate that landscape and biodiversity values …
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provision of ecosystem services in a region is its underlying biodiversity, i.e., the wealth and variety of plants, animals, and … microorganisms. Because the benefits from ecosystem services and biodiversity are not valued in market exchanges, private landowners …
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Although in-situ conservation is increasingly considered an efficient way of conserving plant genetic resources, little is known about the incentives and constraints that govern conservation decisions among small farm holders in developing countries. Using a choice experiment approach, we...
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significant shift in conservation in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park and environs in South Africa. Biodiversity conservation will … environmental stewards. To assess their attitude toward biodiversity conservation, this study used the contingent valuation method … to investigate the values the communities assign to biodiversity conservation under three land tenure arrangements in the …
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. With the looming biodiversity and nature crises, spatial allocation of wind power cannot, however, any longer be considered … sequestration, and impacts on wilderness and biodiversity implemented as sustainability constraints on the model. Simulating …-off between local disamenities and loss of biodiversity and wilderness. Siting wind power plants outside the visual proximity of …
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