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biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services provision in the context of an existing policy mix. In the context of the EU 2010 … goal of halting biodiversity loss, researchers have been called upon to evaluate the role of economic instruments for cost …
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contribution of biodiversity to the sustainable development has recently been acknowledged. The need for this recognition arose … from the fact that biodiversity provides a variety of socio- cultural and economic services for the humankind such as food …, water, shelter, medicines, energy and aesthetic value. Despite realization of biodiversity as essential factor for human …
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Increasing demand of timber along with the rising concerns towards environment create a need to analyze the management system of forests in Punjab. Both natural and planted forests are present in province of Punjab. They are different in nature and thus have different management plans. This...
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the world’s population still depends on plant based traditional medicines (WHO, 2002). Growing consciousness about health …
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Excerpt: Worldwide, governments are growingly focusing on free and open source software (FOSS) as a move toward transparency and the freedom to run, copy, study, change and improve the software. The European Commission (EC) is also supporting the development of FOSS [...]. In addition to the...
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savings indicator. We analyse the forest resources considering positive externalities of natural capital, as the approximation … indicators. Re-calculations of the sustainability indicator provide evidences suggesting that existing weak sustainability …
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The paper reviewed the methods in use for the economic valuation of Non-timber forest products. In the main, three methods are used. They are direct market price, indirect market price and non-market estimates. No method is superior to the other but appropriate method of valuation depends on the...
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users, and more limited progress in charging biodiversity and carbon sequestration users. Because of the way it makes …
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Individual countries considering participating in a Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) mechanism need information on what it would cost them to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, and how to actually deliver those emissions reductions....
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The Knowledge Flow Paper at hand gives an overview of the economic reasons for the loss of biodiversity and eco …
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