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In this paper we evaluate the economic, natural capital and ecosystem services impacts of strategies for conserving … Ecosystem Services (PES), implementing more sustainable silvopastoral systems and expanding habitat banking. We develop and … Ecosystem Services Modeling (IEEMESM) to shed light on the multi-dimensional impacts of these programs from the perspective of …
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This paper describes how Natural Capital Accounting (NCA) can be integrated into economy wide analytical frameworks to enhance evidence based decision making. Examples from applications of the Integrated Environmental Economic Modelling (IEEM) Platform show how explicitly accounting for the...
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Habitats and the ecosystem services they provide are part of the world's portfolio of natural capital assets. Like many … interested in understanding how to make the link between ecosystem function, ecosystem service, and conservation policy decisions … this research is not just important for ecological science but it can and will influence ecosystem service values that in …
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The value of the services provided to human societies by natural ecosystems and biogeochemical cycles has recently been the topic of discussion and research. Here I review some of the basic economic principles necessary for understanding some of the questions that arise in this area. I argue...
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The value of the services provided to human societies by natural ecosystems and biogeochemical cycles has recently been the topic of discussion and research. Here I review some of the basic economic principles necessary for understanding some of the questions that arise in this area. I argue...
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Recreation is one of the ecosystem’s secondary values of a well conserved natural ecosystem, associated with the direct …
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In this paper the ecosystem’s valuation framework is described and discussed at a conceptual and formal level …. Following utilitarianism and the capital asset analogy, one defines the concept of ecosystem value and how to quantify it by … like Contingent Valuation. Several controversial questions arise when one tries to compute ecosystem’s value by using …
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Ecosystem externalities arise when one use of an ecosystem affects its other uses through the production functions of … the ecosystem.We use simulations from a size-spectrum ecosystem model to investigate the ecosystem externality created by …
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