The concept of ecosystem services (ES) has taken the environmental science and policy
literature by storm, and has become almost the approach to thinking about and assessing …

Abstract In the Central Himalayan mountains forest ecosystems occupy over two-third of the
landscape. People of the region largely depend upon a variety of ecosystem goods and …

Exploring the prospects of the ecosystem services approach for natural resource
management and poverty alleviation in India, this paper points out that it is vital to have an …

National income measures like Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and Net Domestic Product
(NDP) have been used as measures of the economic progress and standard of living in …

Value assessment of exotic and native tree plantations based upon short-term gains from
wood has suggested that exotic plantations are more profitable than native tree plantations …

Sacred species/groves/landscapes have played an important role in conserving biodiversity
based on the socio-cultural practices in different parts of the world including India. It has …

The success of incorporating natural capital into resource-and land-use decisions hinges on
the ability to quantify the ecosystem services, forecast the returns to the investments, convert …

In a conference of Agricultural Economics, why to talk about valuation of natural resources?
This question is nothing new. It was constantly raised from the time of Kautilya, Confucius …

Environmental resources often constitute the core of the tourism product and are hence most
susceptible to overuse and misuse. While the industry uses these resources almost free of …

It is a well known fact that wild plants in natural forests and/or in man-made tree plantations,
provide many ecological services and some of them are economically important to humans …