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In order to facilitate the use of biodiversity indicators in policy making at the country level, a few and well …-established indices should be suggested. Promising candidates include biodiversity-related indices of the Convention on Biological … Diversity; therefore I evaluate their current use and performance in Hungary as a model country. Especially indices of the …
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happening in almost 70 countries (on approximately 40% of the world forested area). This study focuses on countries where forest … cover increased between 1990 and 2010. As "forests" is a heterogeneous group, a biodiversity-corrected Forestation Index is … positive impact on biodiversity) and monocultures (that are debatable with that respect). OLS regression is used to reveal …
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hectare estimates of the economic value of some selected ecosystem services for all forest biomes in the world, identified …
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agricultural productivity, biodiversity conservation, and climate resilience. This study provides a detailed analysis of the past …
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The world has pledged to protect 30 percent of its land and waters by 2030 to halt the rapid deterioration of critical … summarize empirical evidence across multiple regions of the world. In most cases, protection has had at most a modest impact on … econometric advancements, shifting focus to direct measures of biodiversity, filling the knowledge gap on the effect of protected …
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biodiversity. This paper uses the staggered introduction of protected-area policies between 1985 and 2020 to study the selection of …
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values, carbon sequestration and biodiversity or scenic values. We solve the model qualitatively with general functions and … sequestration may have negative impacts on biodiversity-scenic values. To evaluate the practical relevance, we compare …
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-being losses with respect to changes in biodiversity and forest regulating services that are directly driven by climate change … in the evaluation of climate impacts on European forests: Firstly, future projections yield different states of the world …
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Trade-related measures aim to regulate side-effects in international environmental agreements and are expected to positively influence the level of participation in the agreements as well as their degree of stability. In this paper we examine one side-effect of the 1994 International Tropical...
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Protecting biodiversity will require the phase-out of harmful production at a large scale. However, some of these … bilateral investment treaties they are parties to, that pose the most severe threat to biodiversity protection. It assumes that … foreign investment positions, and (iii) in countries with vulnerable biodiversity. To operationalize these notions, the paper …
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