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Environmental site assessment report : True Geothermal Energy Company drill site of geothermal well KA-1, Puna, Hawaii [PDF]

open access: yes, 1995
"Brewer Environmental Services (BES) was retained by True Geothermal Energy Company (True) to perform a modified environmental site assessment at the drilling site of True Geothermal Well KA-1 in Puna, Hawaii (Figure 1).
Brewer Environmental Services
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Environmental response : True Geothermal Energy Company drill site of geothermal well KA1-1, Puna, Hawaii [PDF]

open access: yes, 1995
"Brewer Environmental Services (BES) was retained by True Geothermal Energy Company (hereinafter "True") to document the response action of a release of an unknown quantity of diesel fuel in to the environment.
Brewer Environmental Services
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Payments for environmental services in upper-catchments of Vietnam: will it help the poorest?

open access: yesInternational Journal of the Commons, 2009
Payments for Environmental Services (PES) schemes present a new approach that creates a conditional benefit transfer between upland providers of environmental services and the downstream beneficiaries of these services.
Damien Jourdain   +3 more
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Can Payment for Ecosystem Services Schemes Be an Alternative Solution to Achieve Sustainable Environmental Development? A Critical Comparison of Implementation between Europe and China

open access: yesResources, 2018
The term “Ecosystem Services” was coined to indicate “all the multiple benefits humans obtain from ‘natural capital’ (i.e., the world’s stock of natural assets—geology, soil, air, water—including living ...
Andrea G. Capodaglio, Arianna Callegari
doaj   +1 more source

Local Food Systems: Making Visible the Invisible Through Urban Agroecology

open access: yesFrontiers in Sustainable Cities, 2022
The world is going through the second wave of urbanization. Although cities still occupy a relatively small area, they are the main consumers of natural resources, energy and water.
Walter Alberto Pengue   +1 more
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L’émergence des services environnementaux dans le droit international de l’environnement : une terminologie confuse

open access: yesVertigO, 2012
This article shows that the recent appearance of the terms of ecosystem services and environmental services, like tools of conservation of the biodiversity, is not accompanied by clear definition nor even of a consensus on the term used.The plurality of ...
Marie Bonnin
doaj   +1 more source

Carbon versus Timber Economy in Mediterranean Forests

open access: yesAtmosphere, 2021
Forests produce goods and services, but the forest economy is based on goods, with market price, more than on services. Under Mediterranean climate conditions forests have low timber production, being frequently financially loss-making, despite the ...
Álvaro Enríquez-de-Salamanca
doaj   +1 more source

Payments for Environmental Services (PES) in Croatia – Public and Professional Perception and Needs for Adaptation

open access: yesSouth-East European Forestry, 2010
Background and Purpose: Croatia is one of the countries with a long practice of payments for environmental forests’ services (PES). Following the implementation of green tax in Croatia and present European trends, the aim of this research is to ...
Dijana Vuletić   +3 more
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Funding Scheme Options for Climate Change Mitigation in Forestry Sector

open access: yesJurnal Ilmu Kehutanan, 2019
Climate change mitigation actions significantly require strong financial support. One of the climate change financing schemes stated on the government regulation no 46/2017 is transaction of environmental services.
Fitri Nurfatriani   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Paiements pour services environnementaux : nouveaux instruments de politique publique environnementale

open access: yesDéveloppement Durable et Territoires, 2016
Payments for environmental services (PES) are incentive instruments. They are to provide remuneration for the adoption of practices conducive to the preservation of the environment. They are based on contractual structures that can involve private actors
Claire Etrillard
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