Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 57
Cover Image
The private and public insurance value of conservative biodiversity management
Baumgärtner, Stefan; Quaas, Martin F. - 2006
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 … management effort influence biodiversity; and (iii) the welfare loss due to free-riding may decrease or increase, depending on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265129
Cover Image
Institutions and preferences determine resilience of ecological-economic systems
Quaas, Martin F.; Baumgärtner, Stefan; Derissen, Sandra; … - 2008
We perform a model analysis to study the origins of limited resilience in ecological-economic systems. We demonstrate that the resilience properties of the ecosystem are essentially determined by the management institutions and consumers' preferences for ecosystem services. In particular, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265202
Cover Image
Ramsey discounting of ecosystem services
Baumgärtner, Stefan; Klein, Alexandra M.; Thiel, Denise; … - 2013
Most ecosystem services, which are essential for human well-being, are globally declining, while the production of consumption goods, measured by GDP, is still growing. To adequately account for this opposite development in public cost-benefit analyses, it has been proposed - based on a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333507
Cover Image
Managing increasing environmental risks through agro-biodiversity and agri-environmental policies
Baumgärtner, Stefan; Quaas, Martin F. - 2008
Agro-biodiversity can provide natural insurance to risk-averse farmers by reducing the variance of crop yield, and to … analyze the choice of agro-biodiversity by risk-averse farmers who have access to financial insurance, and study the … implications for agri-environmental policy design when on-farm agro-biodiversity generates a positive risk externality. While …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005545325
Cover Image
Institutions and preferences determine resilience of ecological-economic systems
Quaas, Martin F.; Baumgärtner, Stefan; Derissens, Sandra; … - 2008
We perform a model analysis to study the origins of limited resilience in ecological-economic systems. We demonstrate that the resilience properties of the ecosystem are essentially determined by the management institutions and consumers’ preferences for ecosystem services. In particular, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005545369
Cover Image
Ecological-economic viability as a criterion of strong sustainability under uncertainty
Baumgärtner, Stefan; Quaas, Martin F. - 2007
Strong sustainability, according to the common definition, requires that different natural and economic capital stocks have to be maintained as physical quantities separately. Yet, in a world of uncertainty this cannot be guaranteed. To therefore define strong sustainability under uncertainty in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005545371
Cover Image
Ramsey discounting of ecosystem services
Baumgaertner, Stefan; Klein, Alexandra M.; Thiel, Denise; … - 2013
Most ecosystem services, which are essential for human well-being, are globally declining, while the production of consumption goods, measured by GDP, is still growing. To adequately account for this opposite development in public cost-benefit analyses, it has been proposed - based on a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010858058
Cover Image
Agro-biodiversity as natural insurance and the development of financial insurance markets
Baumgärtner, Stefan; Quaas, Martin F. - 2007
Agro-biodiversity can provide natural insurance to risk averse farmers. We employ a conceptual ecological … implications for individually and socially optimal agro-ecosystem managementand policy design when on-farm agro-biodiversity … access to financial insurance leads to lower agro-biodiversity, the eects on the market failure problem (due to the external …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005729417
Cover Image
Environmental justice in agricultural systems. An evaluation of success factors and barriers by the example of the Philippine farmer network MASIPAG
Glotzbach, Stefanie - 2012
A twofold challenge arises from the normative aim of environmental justice to the management of agricultural systems: (1) the improvement of food security and livelihood of the rural poor today; (2) the sustenance and enhancement of the long-term productivity and resilience of agricultural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009393998
Cover Image
On the notion of ecological justice
Glotzbach, Stefanie - 2011
The increasing loss of ecosystem services severely affects life perspectives of today’s poor and future persons. Thus, governing the use of ecosystem services in an intragenerational and intergenerational just way is an urgent issue. I develop a conception of ecological justice that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009018519