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Natural capital changes in Poland : integrating spatial and economic approach

Telega, Ivan; Telega, Agnieszka - In: Economic and environmental studies : a journal for … 17 (2017) 4, pp. 907-922

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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Rethinking Venice from an ecosystem services perspective

Da Mosto, Jane; Bertolini, Camilla; Markandya, Anil; … - 2020

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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Modelling natural capital : a proposal for a mixed multi-criteria approach to assign management priorities to ecosystem services

Castro-Pardo, Mónica de; Fernández Martínez, Pascual; … - In: Contemporary economics 14 (2020) 1, pp. 22-37

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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Chinese urbanites and the preservation of rare species in remote parts of the country : the example of Eaglewood

Ahlheim, Michael; Frör, Oliver; Langenberger, Gerhard; … - 2014

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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Managing the biodiversity impacts of fertiliser and pesticide use : overview and insights from trends and policies across selected OECD countries

Sud, Megha - 2020

counter these in selected OECD countries. More specifically, the paper begins with an overview of the main biodiversity and …

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Economic/Ecological Tradeoffs Among Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity Conservation

Hussain, Abul Maala - 2013

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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Ecosystem services as a ballast to guide sustained economic growth by biodiversity conservation actions

Reale, Ricardo; Ribas, Luiz; Magro-Lindenkamp, Teresa - 2022

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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Impacts of reforestation on stabilization of riverine water levels in South Korea

Yoon, Jaehyun; Baak, Saang Joon; Seo, Min Young; Kim, … - In: KDI-journal of economic policy 44 (2022) 4, pp. 1-24

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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Poorer, but richer : an ecosystem services account for Campania, Calabria and Sicily

La Notte, Alessandra; Maes, Joachim; Vallecillo, Sara - In: Italian review of agricultural economics 75 (2020) 2, pp. 3-12

polices targeting climate change, biodiversity and sustainable agriculture. …

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Urban green : integrating ecosystem extent and condition as a basis for ecosystem accounts : examples from the Oslo region

Garnåsjordet, Per Arild; Steinnes, Margrete; … - 2020

The article enhances the knowledge base for assessment of urban ecosystem services, within UN System of Environmental-Economic Accounting Experimental Ecosystem Accounting (SEEA EEA), which is based on spatial extent accounts (area of ecosystems) and biophysical condition accounts (ecological...

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