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Mapping of Forest Biodiversity Values: A Plural Perspective

Nunes, Paulo A.L.D.; Ojea, Elena; Loureiro, Maria - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009

The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment is built on a conceptual framework that links biodiversity to the services ecosystems provide to society. Based on this framework, we first compile market and non-market forest valuation studies and, secondly, explore the potential of an econometric modeling...

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A Summary of Ecosystem Service Economic Valuation Methods and Recommendations for Future Studies

Kaval, Pamela - Department of Economics, Waikato Management School - 2010

This short working paper summarizes ecosystem service economic valuation methods. The paper begins with an introduction to ecosystem services, and then describes the various methods that can be used to value them. An extensive literature review was carried out, illustrating those ecosystem...

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Biodiversity conservation, loss of natural capital and interest rates

Tisdell, Clem - In: Ecological Economics 70 (2011) 12, pp. 2511-2515

It is argued that there is neither regular relationship between changes in the level of the market rate of interest and variations in the rate of biodiversity loss nor does such a regular relationship occur between alterations in the market rate of interest and changes in the rate of natural...

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Carbon Sequestration with Reforestations and Biodiversity-Scenic Values

Caparrós, A.; Cerdá, E.; Ovando, P.; Campos, P. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2007

This paper presents an optimal control model to analyze reforestations with two different species, including commercial values, carbon sequestration and biodiversity or scenic values. We solve the model qualitatively with general functions and discuss the implications of partial or total...

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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 - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 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...

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Rewarding carbon sequestration in South-Western French forests: A costly operation?

Pajot, Guillaume - In: Journal of Forest Economics 17 (2011) 4, pp. 363-377

The extension of rotation lengths in forests has been proposed as an option for increasing carbon storage and … contributing to climate change mitigation. This paper presents the results of a case study conducted on forests located in the …

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REDD in Design: Assessment of Planned First-Generation Activities in Indonesia

Myers Madeira, Erin - 2009

Much of the guidance about potential impacts of reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) speculates how efforts would be implemented and draws lessons from other mechanisms, such as payments for ecosystem services (PES). However, with few REDD activities underway, little...

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Heterogeneity and Common Pool Resources: Collective Management of Forests in Himachal Pradesh, India

Naidu, Sirisha C. - 2005

In the past two decades, theoretical and empirical evidence suggests that communities of resource users are capable of overcoming social dilemmas, and are capable of creating and sustaining institutions designed to prevent degradation of common pool natural resources. However, there is...

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Valuing Changes in Forest Biodiversity

Buszko-Briggs, Małgorzata; Czajkowski, Mikołaj; … - Wydział Nauk Ekonomicznych, Uniwersytet Warszawski - 2008

The paper offers an innovative approach to valuation of biodiversity. Instead of the prevailing approach of using only one indicator of biodiversity (usually number of species) we provide evidence that it is possible to provide attributes describing complex characteristics of biodiversity based...

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Development and application of a new Forestation Index: global forestation patterns and drivers

Benedek, Zsofia; Ferto, Imre - Közgazdaság-tudományi Intézet, Közgazdaság- és … - 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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