Purpose - The rapid adoption of the ecosystem concept in innovation contexts has led to a proliferation of differing uses. Scholars need to be crystal clear which concept of the ecosystem they are using to facilitate communication between scholars and allow for cumulativeness and creativity....

I develop a quantitative measure of a manager's responsibility for a regime shift in a managed ecosystem with stochastic dynamics. I build on the well-established concept of responsibility, which I operationalize in a simple generic model. Causal responsibility is the degree of causation of an...

Despite the prominence of sustainable development approaches in the academic literature, together with the significance attributed to the economy and society, the concept is not sufficiently theorized, especially in terms of methodological issues. The presented study makes a contribution to the...

In this paper we evaluate the economic, natural capital and ecosystem services impacts of strategies for conserving Colombias rich natural capital endowment. Specifically, we consider Government program proposals for establishing Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES), implementing more...

The year 2020 is a critical year for sustainable development policy and practice with the review and renewal of various international commitments including the Sustainable Development Goals, the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Paris Agreement. The post-2020 agenda needs to be informed...

Management für eine nachhaltige Zukunftsgestaltung -- Nachhaltiges Wirtschaften und Unternehmensmanagement -- Umwelt in Gesellschaft, Politik und Recht -- Ökosysteme, Landnutzung und Biodiversität -- Umweltrelevante Systeme und Technologien -- Umweltinformationssysteme und -management --...

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...

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...

Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is an environmental management tool, whose function is to predict and manage possible impacts arising from a given project. With the emergence of new European legislation, there is a need to implement new procedures that make environmental impact assessment...

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...

Lake eutrophication and rehabilitation -- Regime shift in lake eutrophication -- Role of coastal aquifers in water and food security -- Comprehensive Everglades restoration plan (CERP) -- Mangrove current status and future trends -- Tsunami : Sendai disaster risk reduction -- Integrated coastal...

In this paper we review the concept of ecosystems as applied to economic geography. We argue that taking the metaphor of the ecosystem more literally than has been done in the past may advance understanding of economic systems at the regional scale. We define an economic ecosystem as a...

In 2016, anthropologist Veronica Strang suggested that ‘justice' - more precisely, ‘relational justice' - is when we recognise, appreciate and uphold value in others. All-embracing discussions of ‘Other' and ‘Others' have been extensively narrated elsewhere, and there is no need for us...

The practical importance of economic valuation information can hardly be overstated. Coastal and marine resource policy planning and management benefit from complete information on the impact of policy decisions. In addition, proper accounting of the impacts of these policy decisions is...

Discounting has to take account of ecosystem services in consumption and production. Previous literature focuses on the first aspect and shows the importance of the relative price effect, for given growth rates of consumption and ecosystem services. This paper focuses on intermediate ecosystem...

Ecosystems are increasingly recognized as crucial for the success of a firm's innovation strategy and business model. They are also a topic attracting increasing academic interest, with more than 300 articles published in top journals since 1992, most in the past five years. Based on an...

Chapter 1: Introduction: What Are Common Wealth Dividends (CWDs)? -- Chapter 2:. Thomas Paine and the Perennial Problem of Land Reform -- Chapter 3: CWDs as Applied to Natural Resources -- Chapter 4: CWD as Applied to Ecosystem Services -- Chapter 5: Common Wealth Dividends in Theory and Practice.

"William Sargent presents a thoroughly accessible insider's guide to the discovery of the lysate test, the exploitation of the horseshoe crab at the hands of multinational pharmaceutical conglomerates, local fishing interests, and the legal and governmental wrangling over the creatures' ultimate...

Traditionally, the ocean economy is viewed solely as a mechanism for economic growth. In this business-as-usual approach, large-scale industrial economies have developed the ocean economy through the exploitation of maritime and marine resources, often without consideration of how those...