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A economia de ecossistemas e da biodiversidade no Brasil (TEEB-Brasil): Análise de lacunas

Roma, Júlio César; Saccaro, Nilo Luiz; Mation, Lucas … - 2013

economics of ecosystems and biodiversity in Brazil (TEEB Brazil): gap analysis. Its main goal is to foster a better … understanding of the economic value of Brazil's biodiversity and ecosystem services, with the intent that these factors be … importance of biodiversity and ecosystem services for the Brazilian economy. For the empirical studies identified, we analyzed …

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Natural capital changes in Poland: Integrating spatial and economic approach

Telega, Ivan; Telega, Agnieszka - In: Economic and Environmental Studies (E&ES) 17 (2017) 4, pp. 907-922

In the context of decision making, the main challenge is the assessment of changes in natural capital stocks due to conversion of ecosystems for development purposes. Ecosystems are basically a spatial concept, so the natural approach is to use GIS to evaluate land cover changes. Basic economic...

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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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Modelling natural capital: A proposal for a mixed multi-criteria approach to assign management priorities to ecosystem services

Rosefielde, Steven - In: Contemporary Economics 14 (2020) 1, pp. 22-37

Investment in natural capital is increasingly necessary and urgent considering the increasing loss of global bio- diversity and the associated social and economic losses. Ecosystem services are tools for quantifying the stock of natural capital and there is great concern about their assessment...

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Loan pricing and biodiversity exposure: Nature-related spillovers to the financial sector

Becker, Annette; Di Girolamo, Francesca Erica; Rho, Caterina - 2023

Biodiversity loss can have direct economic impacts, as it limits the availability of natural resources and increases … costs across various industries. When firms face significant risks due to biodiversity loss, their creditworthiness may be … loans market in the European Union and United Kingdom. Firstly, we construct a country-level indicator of biodiversity …

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On the environmental effectiveness of the EU marine strategy framework directive

Bertram, Christine; Rehdanz, Katrin - 2012

Marine and coastal ecosystems - and thus the benefits they create for humans - are subject to increasing pressures and competing usages. For this reason, the European Union (EU) adopted the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD), which is to guide future maritime policy in the EU and aims at...

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Economic Land Use, Ecosystem Services and Microfounded Species Dynamics

Eichner, Thomas; Pethig, Rüdiger - 2004

species forming a food chain. The size of habitat determines the diversity and abundance of species. That biodiversity …

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The private and public insurance value of conservative biodiversity management

Baumgärtner, Stefan; Quaas, Martin F. - 2006

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 … management effort influence biodiversity; and (iii) the welfare loss due to free-riding may decrease or increase, depending on …

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Economic land use, ecosystem services and microfounded species dynamics

Eichner, Thomas; Pethig, Rüdiger - 2004

species forming a food chain. The size of habitat determines the diversity and abundance of species. That biodiversity …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276166

Economic valuation of forest ecosystem services: Methodology and monetary estimates

Chiabai, Aline; Travisi, C. M.; Ding, H.; Markandya, A.; … - 2009

By using ad hoc value transfer protocols, this paper offers a methodological contribution and provides accurate per hectare estimates of the economic value of some selected ecosystem services for all forest biomes in the world, identified following the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment taxonomy...

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