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Economic and ecological trade-offs of agricultural specialization at different spatial scales
Klasem, Stephan; Meyer, Katrin M.; Dislich, Claudia; … - 2015
Specialization in agricultural systems leads to trade-offs between economic gains and ecosystem functions. Economic gains can be maximized when production activities are specialized at increasingly broader scales (from the household to the village, region or above), particularly when markets for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011284920
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Ecosystem functions of oil palm plantations : A review
Dislich, Claudia; Keyel, Alexander C.; Salecker, Jan; … - 2015
Oil palm plantations have expanded rapidly in the last decades. This large-scale land-use change has had great impacts on both the areas converted to oil palm and their surroundings. Howev-er, research on the impacts of oil palm agriculture is scattered and patchy, and no clear overview ex-ists....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325626
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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/10003793404
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The economic insurance value of ecosystem resilience
Baumgärtner, Stefan; Strunz, Sebastian - 2009
Ecosystem resilience, i.e. an ecosystem's ability to maintain its basic functions and controls under disturbances, is often interpreted as insurance: by decreasing the probability of future drops in the provision of ecosystem services, resilience insures risk-averse ecosystem users against...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003872506
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The relationship between resilience and sustainable development of ecological-economic systems
Derissen, Sandra; Quaas, Martin; Baumgärtner, Stefan - 2009
-economic system and the sustainability criterion, such that a) resilience of the system in a given regime is both necessary and … sufficient for sustainable development, b) resilience of the system in a given regime is sufficient, but not necessary, c …) resilience of the system in a given regime is necessary, but not sufficient, and d) resilience of the system in a given regime is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003921511
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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/10010187850