While biodiversity loss is an ecological phenomenon, it also has further dimensions– political, social and, last but not least, economic. From the economic perspective, the rapid …
B Bartkowski - Ecosystem Services, 2017 - Elsevier
Economic valuation mostly focuses on specific ecosystems, species or the services they provide. The diversity within ecosystems is viewed as a valuation object less frequently. In …
Linking biophysical aspects of ecosystems with human benefits through the notion of ecosystem services is essential to assess the trade-offs (ecological, socio-cultural, economic …
In the Total Economic Value (TEV) framework, ecosystems may generate output values (the values generated in the current state of the ecosystem, for example food production, climate …
PALD Nunes, J Bergh, P Nijkamp - 2003 - cabidigitallibrary.org
This book surveys and highlights the potential and limitations of an ecological-economic analysis of biodiversity. Chapter 2 presents a definition of biodiversity and discusses …
O Fromm - Environmental and Resource Economics, 2000 - Springer
Rational economic decisions regarding theconservation of biodiversity require the considerationof all the benefits generated by this naturalresource. Recently a number of …
After 1992 many conservation biologists thought that the use of economic instruments would be more effective to halt biodiversity loss than policies based on setting apart some natural …
SC Farber, R Costanza, MA Wilson - Ecological economics, 2002 - Elsevier
The purpose of this special issue is to elucidate concepts of value and methods of valuation that will assist in guiding human decisions vis-à-vis ecosystems. The concept of ecosystem …
PALD Nunes, JCJM van den Bergh… - Available at SSRN …, 2001 - papers.ssrn.com
This paper introduces and surveys ecological-economic analysis and valuation of biodiversity. Furthermore, the notion and application of economic, monetary valuation of …