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Rethinking Venice from an ecosystem services perspective
Da Mosto, Jane; Bertolini, Camilla; Markandya, Anil; … - 2020
Safeguarding the future of Venice is a globally recognised challenge of urban sustainability. We propose a sustainable management model, alternative to the current strategy, that primarily focuses on the built heritage and which interprets the city together with its encircling lagoon as a matrix...
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A retrospective stated preference approach to assessment of coastal infrastructure investments : an application to Barbados
Banerjee, Onil; Boyle, Kevin J.; Rogers, Cassandra T.; … - 2016
Ex-post economic impact evaluations are standard requirements for loans and grants from multilateral international development institutions. In many cases, however, lack of sufficient baseline or historical data, or the very nature of the investment itself renders orthodox economic impact...
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Coastal infrastructure and climate change adaptation in Bangladesh : ecosystem services insights from an integrated SES-DAPSIR framework
Sarker, Md Monzer Hossain; Martinez-Hernandez, Alberto … - 2024
The escalating impacts of climate change on coastal regions stress the urgency for effective adaptation strategies, particularly for the case of high-risk countries such as Bangladesh. Naturebased solutions, grey and mixed coastal infrastructure offer promising solutions for addressing these...
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Urban watershed services for improved ecosystem management and risk reduction, assessment methods and policy instruments : state of the art
Depietri, Yaella; Guadagno, Lorenzo; Breil, Margaretha - 2013
Under scenarios of increasing unplanned urban expansion, environmental degradation and hazard exposure, the vulnerability of urban populations, especially of their poorer segments, needs to be tackled through integrated economic, social and environmental solutions. Basing our analysis on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010226002
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Scaling up ecosystem services values : methodology, applicability and a case study
Brander, Luke; Ghermandi, Andrea; Kuik, Onno J.; … - 2010
The approach of using existing data on economic values of local ecosystem services for an assessment of these values at a larger geographical scale can be called “scaling up”. In a scaling-up exercise, economic values from a particular study site are transferred to another geographical...
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Economic valuation of forest ecosystem services : methodology and monetary estimates
Chiabai, Aline; Travisi, C. M.; Ding, H.; Markandya, A.; … - 2009
where use and non-use values are highest, which includes North America. -- Forest ; Ecosystem Services ; Biodiversity …
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The economic valuation of marine ecosystems
Nunes, Paulo A. L. D.; Ding, Helen; Markandya, Anil - 2009
- for example climate regulation and provision of habitat for biodiversity. Given that most human activities are priced in … and biodiversity can make sense if and only if important guidelines are observed. -- Economic Valuation ; Marine Ecosystem …
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Macro-economic impact assessment of future changes in European marine ecosystem services
Bosello, Francesco; Delpiazzo, Elisa; Eboli, Fabio - 2015
The present research has been developed within the EU FP7 VECTORS project (http://www.marine-vectors.eu/). The main scope of the project (2011 - 2015) has been to evaluate, from a multilateral perspective, drivers, pressures and vectors of changes in marine life of three main European seas...
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Biodiversity valuation in developing countries : a focus on small island developing states (SIDS)
Teelucksingh, Sonja S.; Nunes, Paulo A. L. D. - 2010
greater understanding of the significant role of biodiversity in rural communities of developing countries who depend most on … input of biodiversity in developing countries to the provision of the ecosystem goods and services (EGS) that are essential … a necessary tool for achieving this objective. However, valuing biodiversity in a developing country context can be an …
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Valuation of linkages between climate change, biodiversity and productivity of European agro-ecosystems
Palatnik, Ruslana Rachel; Nunes, Paulo A. L. D. - 2010
productivity. However, this is not the only channel for climatic change to affect agro-systems. Biodiversity is subject to climatic … fluctuations and in turn may alter land productivity too. Firstly, biodiversity is an input into agro-ecosystems. Secondly …, biodiversity supports the functioning of these systems (e.g. the balancing of the nutrient cycle). Thirdly, agro-systems also host …
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