Ecosystem services review of water projects [PDF]
Water projects are typically evaluated using benefit cost analysis. Ecosystem services are the direct and indirect benefits that people obtain from ecosystems. Many of these benefits are ignored in benefit cost analysis, because of the absence of markets
Cullen, Ross +2 more
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A Scale-Explicit Framework for Conceptualizing the Environmental Impacts of Agricultural Land Use Changes [PDF]
, 2014 Demand for locally-produced food is growing in areas outside traditionally dominant agricultural regions due to concerns over food safety, quality, and sovereignty; rural livelihoods; and environmental integrity.
Asbjornsen, Heidi +7 more
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Environmental valuation, ecosystem services and aquatic species [PDF]
, 2007 The thesis consists of an introduction and four articles that can be read independently of each other. The common topic is environmental valuation and cost-benefit analysis.
Kataria, Mitesh
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On the notion of ecological justice [PDF]
The increasing loss of ecosystem services severely affects life perspectives of today’s poor and future persons. Thus, governing the use of ecosystem services in an intragenerational and intergenerational just way is an urgent issue.
Stefanie Glotzbach
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The private and public insurance value of conservative biodiversity management [PDF]
The ecological literature suggests that biodiversity reduces the variance of ecosystem services. Thus, conservative biodiversity management has an insurance value to risk-averse users of ecosystem services.
Baumgärtner, Stefan, Quaas, Martin
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Coastal resource planning system: Integrating evaluation of ecological integrity and ecosystem services valuation [PDF]
, 2010 Efficient and effective coastal management decisions rely on knowledge of the impact of human activities on ecosystem integrity, vulnerable species, and valued ecosystem services—collectively, human impact on environmental quality (EQ). Ecosystem-based
McGee, Leslie-Anne, Stone, Harry
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Evaluating the sustainability of impounded river systems and the cost-effectiveness of dam projects: An ecosystem services approach [PDF]
In recent times, there has been increasing demand in the Canterbury region of New Zealand for the abstraction of water from rivers. The impact of this demand has lead to unacceptable minimum river flows and has adversely affected river ecology.
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Ecosystem services of biodiversity in organic grasslands [PDF]
, 2011 The use of multi-species mixtures in herbage production can add value in terms of improved conditions for pollinating insects, better resource utilization, carbon sequestration, yield stability, animal health and product quality.
Eriksen, J. +2 more
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A Note on the Valuation of Ecosystem Services in Production [PDF]
There has been considerable recent interest in the valuation of ecosystem services. We focus here on the value of such services in the production of market goods.
Simpson, R. David
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Archetypes of land transformations and trajectories of ecosystem services in mountains. [ID660] [PDF]
, 2019 Based on a synthesis of 51 cases of temporal changes in land use and ecosystem services within mountain landscapes, we analyze how changes in land-use intensity influence the supply of ten key services and we describe six typical archetypes. Our analysis
Locatelli, Bruno
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