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Bosques en Bolivia : una estimación espacial de los costos de la deforestación
Gonzalez Rocabado, Alejandra - 2019
Deforestation in Bolivia has increased considerably during the last few decades, which causes carbon dioxide emissions, biodiversity loss, changes to the hydrologic cycle, among others. This study pretends to estimate the impacts and costs of that deforestation. Since each variablehas its own...
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Communications on climate change and biodiversity loss with local populations : exploring best-practices and postcolonial moments in eight case studies from across the globe
Ansari, Dawud; Schönenberg, Regine; Abud, Melissa; … - 2021
Climate change and biodiversity loss trigger policies worldwide, many of which target or impact local communities. Although research, international development, and policy implementation (and, thus, success in fighting both threats) require thoughtful consideration and communication of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012515103
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Development and application of a new Forestation Index : global forestation patterns and drivers
Benedek, Zsófia; Fertő, Imre - 2013
cover increased between 1990 and 2010. As "forests" is a heterogeneous group, a biodiversity-corrected Forestation Index is … also introduced to distinguish between different forms of "environmentally valuable" new forests (that are expected to have … forestation and different types should be acknowledged - treatment of forests as a homogenous category is an oversimplification. …
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The greener, the happier? : the effects of urban green and abandoned areas on residential well-being
Krekel, Christian; Kolbe, Jens; Wüstemann, Henry - 2015
This paper investigates the effects of urban green and abandoned areas on residential well-being in major German cities, using panel data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the time period between 2000 and 2012 and cross-section data from the European Urban Atlas (EUA) for the year...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010476263
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Pricing Nature
Barbier, Edward - 2012
The growing literature on ecosystem services suggests that these benefits are the direct or indirect contributions that ecosystems make to the well-being of human populations. Although the approach to valuing ecosystem services seems straightforward, in practice there are a number of challenges....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106355
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Valuation of EU agricultural landscape
Ciaian, Pavel; Gómez y Paloma, Sergio - 2011
The present paper provides a meta-analysis of agricultural landscape valuation studies and through the estimated benefit transfer function it projects the value of EU landscape. The analyses are based on information from more than thirty European and non-European studies which use a stated...
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A Global Map of Costal Recreation Values : Results from a Spatially Explicit Based Meta-Analysis
Ghermandi, Andrea - 2011
The welfare dimension of the recreational services provided by global coastal ecosystems is examined through a meta-analytical regression-based valuation approach. First, we construct a global, state-of-the-art database of stated and revealed preference estimates on coastal recreation, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013123744
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Controlling for Biases in Primary Valuation Studies : A Meta-Analysis of International Coral Reef Values
Abdullah, Sabah - 2012
This paper updates the existing meta-analysis in coral reef recreation taking into account the previous work of Brander et al. (2007) but considering some stated preference biases and/or effects. The present meta-analysis uses twice the number of observations as the previous one and sheds more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099164
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A global map of costal recreation values : results from a spatially explicit based meta-analysis
Ghermandi, Andrea; Nunes, Paulo A. L. D. - 2011
The welfare dimension of the recreational services provided by global coastal ecosystems is examined through a meta-analytical regression-based valuation approach. First, we construct a global, state-of-the-art database of stated and revealed preference estimates on coastal recreation, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009125120
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Controlling for biases in primary valuation studies : a meta-analysis of international coral reef values
Abdullah, Sabah; Rosenberger, Randall S. - 2012
This paper updates the existing meta-analysis in coral reef recreation taking into account the previous work of Brander et al. (2007) but considering some stated preference biases and/or effects. The present meta-analysis uses twice the number of observations as the previous one and sheds more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009628063