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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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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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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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The natural capital concept is generating broad interest that extends well beyond economists. Economics has a long history of applying capital theory to natural resources. However, measurement of the value of ecosystems has mostly focused on income flows rather than valuing stocks of natural...
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Based on a Contingent Valuation study in Shanghai we assess people's willingness to contribute personally to the alleviation of environmental problems occurring in distant parts of the country. One split of our survey assessed Shanghai residents' willingness to pay for the preservation of...
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counter these in selected OECD countries. More specifically, the paper begins with an overview of the main biodiversity and …
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contribute to monitoring progress towards two of the 2011-2020 Aichi Biodiversity Targets under the Convention on Biological … eliminate, phase out, or reform incentives, including subsidies, harmful to biodiversity and to develop and apply positive … incentives for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity. Aichi Target 20 refers to the need to substantially increase …
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An integrated economic/ecological model is developed to address tradeoffs between biodiversity conservation and two … maximizes social welfare based on grazing profits, hunter net benefits, and conserving biodiversity in a natural ecosystem. The … ecological model defines a steady-state set of sustainable grazing and hunting choices, but biodiversity conservation may reduce …
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The topic of biodiversity loss has been the subject of a vast and growing scientific and economic literature. Species … biodiversity is projected to decrease by a further 10% by 2050. As with biodiversity, the planet has also experienced major losses … paths. This report contributes to that goal by looking at the consequences of the loss of biodiversity and ecosystem …
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There are now a large number of valuation studies on the benefits of biodiversity and on ecosystem services, the … research community has focussed on ESS as the main organising framework, with some additional use of the biodiversity concept …
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