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Conversion, intensification, and abandonment: A human appropriation of net primary production approach to analyze historic land-use dynamics in New Zealand 1860–2005

Fetzel, Tamara; Gradwohl, Markus; Erb, Karl-Heinz - In: Ecological Economics 97 (2014) C, pp. 201-208

This study presents a national level analysis of changes in land use and land cover in New Zealand from 1860 to 2005. We employ the Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production (HANPP) framework to assess land use induced impacts on ecological energy flows by accounting for socioeconomic...

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Conservation through intensification? The effects of plantations on natural forests

Heilmayr, Robert - In: Ecological Economics 105 (2014) C, pp. 204-210

The rapid growth in plantation forestry over the past two decades attests to the sector's importance in meeting rising global demand for timber, fuel and fiber. However, plantation forests differ dramatically from natural forests in the types of ecosystem services they can provide. As a result,...

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Land use change and its effects on the value of ecosystem services along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico

Mendoza-González, G.; Martínez, M.L.; Lithgow, D.; … - In: Ecological Economics 82 (2012) C, pp. 23-32

In the central region of the Gulf of Mexico, urban growth occurs mainly to support tourism and results in loss of … del Río, Chachalacas and Costa Esmeralda. From 1995–2006, we found that urban sprawl was predominant, and occurred over …/year) of $1.4×103 in Boca del Río, $7×105 in Chachalacas and $1×105 in Costa Esmeralda. Because the value of urban land is …

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Additional CO2 emissions from land use change — Forest conservation as a precondition for sustainable production of second generation bioenergy

Popp, Alexander; Krause, Michael; Dietrich, Jan Philipp; … - In: Ecological Economics 74 (2012) C, pp. 64-70

In the past, deforestation, mainly driven by the conversion of natural forests to agricultural land, contributed up to one-fifth of global human induced carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Substitution of bioenergy for fossil energy is an intensely discussed option for mitigating CO2 emissions. This...

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Re-framing the urban blight problem with trans-disciplinary insights from ecological economics

Weaver, R.C. - In: Ecological Economics 90 (2013) C, pp. 168-176

Similar to circumstances in the field of economics, market fundamentalism dominates urban blight policy spaces in the U … concepts to argue that blight can be understood as a stock that accumulates in an urban system as a result of underinvestment …

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