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Developing appropriate tools to understand and protect ecosystems and the services they provide is of unprecedented importance. This work describes the activity performed by ISPRA for the mapping of the types of ecosystems and the evaluation of their ...
Paolo De Fioravante +2 more
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EcoCondition Toolset – A QGIS plugin for ecosystem condition assessments [PDF]
Ecosystem condition can be understood as the quality of an ecosystem in terms of its abiotic, biotic, and landscape characteristics. It is a measure of structural integrity, functional capacity, and resilience of any given ecological system.
Luís Valença Pinto +4 more
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Biodiversity and ecosystem functions are deteriorating worldwide, and there is an urgent need to reverse these declines and set ecosystems on a path to recovery. Effective monitoring, including a fit for purpose indicator framework, is essential to track
Hannah L Buckley
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Fragmented systems for monitoring and assessing biodiversity and ecosystem services limit the ability to track progress at local and national scales in international multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs).
HyeJin Kim +11 more
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Developing peatland ecosystem accounts to guide targets for restoration [PDF]
The United Nations System of Environmental and Economic Accounting - Ecosystem Accounting (SEEA EA) is a geospatial approach, whereby existing data on ecosystem stocks and flows are collated to show changes over time. The framework has been proposed as a
Catherine Farrell +10 more
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Ecosystem accounting through first nations’ lenses: Integrating the SEEA-EA and Indigenous knowledge systems [PDF]
Silva Larson +2 more
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On the potential use of the Ecosystem Services Valuation Database for valuation in the System of Environmental Economic Accounting [PDF]
The System of Environmental Economic Accounting - Ecosystem Accounting (SEEA EA) provides a framework for quantifying and valuing ecosystem services that is consistent with the System of National Accounts (SNA).
Luke Brander +2 more
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Beyond valuation. Monetary aggregates for the SEEA-EA. The Italian proposal [PDF]
After years of experimentation, documents, meetings, consultations and negotiations, the SEEA EA re-ignited the debate on the monetary quantification of the value of nature.
Aldo Femia, Alessio Capriolo
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How to account for nature-based tourism in Europe. An operational proposal [PDF]
Europe is a leader in the tourism industry, with half of the world's international arrivals in 2018. Nowadays tourism activities related to the enjoyment of nature, Nature-based tourism (NBT), are amongst the main tourism markets worldwide.
Grazia Zulian, Alessandra La Notte
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Applying the System of Environmental Economic Accounting-Ecosystem Accounting (SEEA-EA) framework at catchment scale to develop ecosystem extent and condition accounts [PDF]
Ecosystem accounting is a tool to integrate nature into decision-making in a more structured way. Applying the use of nationally available datasets at catchment scale and following the System of Environmental Economic Accounting-Ecosystem Accounting ...
Catherine Farrell +9 more
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