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economy. To capture the main causes of biodiversity loss and the economic harm from it, we focus on agriculture and its …This paper develops a tractable integrated assessment model of the two-way interaction between biodiversity and the … biodiversity and agricultural output? We show that there exist multiple economic-ecological equilibria and that a single ”bad …
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economy. To capture the main causes of biodiversity loss and the economic harm from it, we focus on agriculture and its …This paper develops a tractable integrated assessment model of the two-way interaction between biodiversity and the … biodiversity and agricultural output? We show that there exist multiple economic-ecological equilibria and that a single "bad …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015398806
agriculture, with a focus on how the loss of biodiversity affects food production. We employ a quantitative, structurally …, and increasingly rich, population are to be met. This requires the further expansion of modern agriculture, but modern … agriculture rests on a small number of highly productive crops and its expansion has led to a significant loss of global …
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concentrated. Biologists and conservation advocates have advanced a number of arguments both that “biodiversity” is imperiled as …
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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 …
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We consider a world economy, in which the global public good "biodiversity" is positively correlated with that share of …-to-pay for biodiversity conservation is positive in "rich" developed countries (North), but very low in "poor" developing … welfare when the North financially supports biodiversity conservation in the South - as stipulated in the Convention on …
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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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Biodiversity is influenced by the process of economic development, between the two there is a causal relationship … - when development does not respect the environment, biodiversity experiences negative transformations. The EU Biodiversity … to protect biodiversity. This paper proposes an analysis of the significant aspects of biodiversity in Romania, based on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014547042
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 … and external effects of management effort on biodiversity; and (iii) the welfare loss due to free-riding may decrease or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010468970
Biodiversity is influenced by the process of economic development, between the two there is a causal relationship … - when development does not respect the environment, biodiversity experiences negative transformations. The EU Biodiversity … to protect biodiversity. This paper proposes an analysis of the significant aspects of biodiversity in Romania, based on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015049586