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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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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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Biodiversity loss reduces ecosystems productivity generating negative impacts on the global economy. Even though the … economy is dependent on biodiversity or its ecological processes, few companies develop Biodiversity Conservation Actions (BCA … relationship between sustainability and biodiversity conservation of five sustainable corporations which controls more than 1 …
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variations in the rate of biodiversity loss nor does such a regular relationship occur between alterations in the market rate of … are given in which a rise in the market rate of interest results in increased biodiversity loss and others in which it … does not. It is also posited that the rate of biodiversity loss (as well as the rate of natural resource extraction) tends …
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We investigate how reforestation contributed to stabilization of riverine water levels in South Korea. For the purpose, we estimate an equation capturing dynamic relationships among rainfall, upstream-area tree stock, and downstream water levels in three river systems of Hongcheon, Mangyeong,...
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The objective of this paper is to provide a review of recent economic literature related to the Bioeconomy, in particular aimed at identifying relevant pathways for future research in this field. The paper is organised in four main parts. First, we illustrate the economic role of the Bioeconomy...
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balance between forests as carbon sink, habitat for biodiversity conservation and functional ecosystems on one hand, and on …
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cover increased between 1990 and 2010. As "forests" is a heterogeneous group, a biodiversity-corrected Forestation Index is … positive impact on biodiversity) and monocultures (that are debatable with that respect). OLS regression is used to reveal …
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biodiversity. Ecologists have shown that biodiversity loss results in lower plant productivity, while agricultural economists have … linked biodiversity loss on farms with increasing variability of crop yields, and sometimes lower mean yields. In this paper … agriculture, with a focus on how the loss of biodiversity affects food production. We employ a quantitative, structurally …
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