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The value of biodiversity in economic decision making : applying the IEEM+ESM approach to conservation strategies in Colombia

Banerjee, Onil; Cicowiez, Martín; Malek, Žiga; … - 2020

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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Integrating the value of natural capital in evidence-based policy making

Banerjee, Onil; Vargas, Renato; Cicowiez, Martín - 2020

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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Macro-economic impact assessment of future changes in European marine ecosystem services

Bosello, Francesco; Delpiazzo, Elisa; Eboli, Fabio - 2015

and the impacts that they have on ecosystem structures and functioning as well as on economic activities and wellbeing … economic effect of future changes in the EU marine ecosystem in the medium term (2030). We focus on those changes potentially … following deterioration of marine ecosystem quality. Impacts on EU coastal countries Gross Domestic Product are negative and …

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An indicator for ecosystem externalities in fishing

Ravn-Jonsen, Lars; Andersen, Ken H.; Vestergaard, Niels - 2015

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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Causes and consequences of open space in U.S. urban areas

Wu, JunJie; Oueslati, Walid; Yu, Jialing - 2016

The provision of open space is at the heart of a complex arbitration of local public finance and urban quality of life. The amount of open space varies substantially across urban areas. This variation raises some natural questions: What determines the amount of open space in an urban area? How...

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Why do firms hold oil stockpiles?

Mason, Charles F. - 2011

Persistent and significant privately-held stockpiles of crude oil have long been an important empirical regularity in the United States. Such stockpiles would not rationally be held in a traditional Hotelling-style model. How then can the existence of these inventories be explained? In the...