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Ecological Economics | Agricultural Spatial Analysis and Modelling | Natural Resource Management | Other Economics | Environmental Science and Management | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Environmental Knowledge | Environmental Management
Ecological Economics | Ecosystem Assessment and Management of Farmland, Arable Cropland and Permanent Cropland Environments | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Development and Welfare | Economic Incentives for Environmental Protection |
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2019
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 2006
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-1991
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 21-09-2017
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2007
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2014
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 21-04-2013
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2018
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 28-08-2009
DOI: 10.1057/DEV.2009.37
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 09-2009
DOI: 10.1038/461472A
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2013
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2011
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 14-07-2015
DOI: 10.1111/BOJ.12298
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 2003
Abstract: Valuation ultimately refers to the contribution of an item to meeting a specific goal or objective. Conventional economic valuation is based on the goal of allocative efficiency. But other social goals may be equally, if not more, important. For ex le, the goals of social fairness and ecological sustainability have been identified as being at least of the same level of importance as allocative efficiency. This paper looks at the role of social goals in determining the basis for valuation of natural capital and ecosystem services, and sketches the characteristics of a system of valuation that would give equal weight to all three of the major social goals mentioned above. It also places these goals within a more comprehensive conceptual model of the economy and its relationship to the ecological life support system in which it is embedded.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2011
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2010
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 29-11-2017
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-1995
Publisher: Springer US
Date: 2008
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-1990
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 02-1996
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2001
Publisher: American Chemical Society (ACS)
Date: 30-05-2018
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Date: 13-03-2015
Abstract: Few projects adequately address design and evaluation
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-1992
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 11-2007
DOI: 10.1641/B571009
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 30-09-2013
Publisher: American Society of Plant Taxonomists
Date: 09-2016
Publisher: Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Date: 11-2007
DOI: 10.1579/0044-7447(2007)36[522:SOCWCW]2.0.CO;2
Abstract: Understanding the history of how humans have interacted with the rest of nature can help clarify the options for managing our increasingly interconnected global system. Simple, deterministic relationships between environmental stress and social change are inadequate. Extreme drought, for instance, triggered both social collapse and ingenious management of water through irrigation. Human responses to change, in turn, feed into climate and ecological systems, producing a complex web of multidirectional connections in time and space. Integrated records of the co-evolving human-environment system over millennia are needed to provide a basis for a deeper understanding of the present and for forecasting the future. This requires the major task of assembling and integrating regional and global historical, archaeological, and paleoenvironmental records. Humans cannot predict the future. But, if we can adequately understand the past, we can use that understanding to influence our decisions and to create a better, more sustainable and desirable future.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 1984
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 13-08-2019
DOI: 10.3390/SU11164374
Abstract: Increasingly, empirical evidence refutes many of the theoretical pillars of mainstream economics. These theories have persisted despite the fact that they support unsustainable and undesirable environmental, social, and economic outcomes. Continuing to embrace them puts at risk the possibility of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and overcoming other global challenges. We discuss a selection of paradoxes and delusions surrounding mainstream economic theories related to: (1) efficiency and resource use, (2) wealth and wellbeing, (3) economic growth, and (4) the distribution of wealth within and between rich and poor nations. We describe a wellbeing economy as an alternative for guiding policy development. In 2018, a network of Wellbeing Economy Governments (WEGo), (supported by, but distinct from, the larger Wellbeing Economy Alliance—WEAll) promoting new forms of governance that erge from the ones on which the G7 and G20 are based, has been launched and is now a living project. Members of WEGo aim at advancing the three key principles of a wellbeing economy: Live within planetary ecological boundaries, ensure equitable distribution of wealth and opportunity, and efficiently allocate resources (including environmental and social public goods), bringing wellbeing to the heart of policymaking, and in particular economic policymaking. This network has potential to fundamentally re-shape current global leadership still anchored to old economic paradigms that give primacy to economic growth over environmental and social wealth and wellbeing.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2010
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2019
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 28-09-2023
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 10-2006
DOI: 10.1038/443749B
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2012
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 02-10-1997
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 02-10-1997
Publisher: Island Press/Center for Resource Economics
Date: 2014
Publisher: Hindawi Limited
Date: 03-06-2018
DOI: 10.1155/2018/7176029
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 02-10-1997
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 03-1994
DOI: 10.1007/BF00135078
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-1999
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2016
Publisher: Resilience Alliance, Inc.
Date: 2011
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 02-10-1997
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2017
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2004
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2015
Publisher: Elsevier
Date: 2012
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2002
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 13-06-2022
DOI: 10.1111/GCB.16281
Abstract: An ecosystem is healthy if it is active, maintains its organization and autonomy over time, and is resilient to stress. Healthy ecosystems provide human well-being via ecosystem services, which are produced in interaction with human, social, and built capital. These services are affected by different ecosystem stewardship schemes. Therefore, society should be aiming for ecosystem health stewardship at all levels to maintain and improve ecosystem services. We review the relationship between ecosystem health and ecosystem services, based on a logic chain framework starting with (1) a development or conservation policy, (2) a management decision or origin of the driver of change, (3) the driver of change itself, (4) the change in ecosystem health, (5) the change in the provision of ecosystem services, and (6) the change in their value to humans. We review two case studies to demonstrate the application of this framework. We analyzed 6,131 records from the Ecosystem Services Valuation Database (ESVD) and found that in approximately 58% of the records data on ecosystem health were lacking. Finally, we describe how the United Nations' System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA) incorporates ecosystem health as part of efforts to account for natural capital appreciation or depreciation at the national level. We also provide recommendations for improving this system.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2017
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2003
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2017
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2011
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2017
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2011
Publisher: Elsevier
Date: 1983
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date: 03-11-2006
DOI: 10.7551/MITPRESS/6572.001.0001
Abstract: Scholars from a range of disciplines develop an integrated human and environmental history over millennial, centennial, and decadal time scales and make projections for the future. Human history, as written traditionally, leaves out the important ecological and climate context of historical events. But the capability to integrate the history of human beings with the natural history of the Earth now exists, and we are finding that human-environmental systems are intimately linked in ways we are only beginning to appreciate. In Sustainability or Collapse?, researchers from a range of scholarly disciplines develop an integrated human and environmental history over millennial, centennial, and decadal time scales and make projections for the future. The contributors focus on the human-environment interactions that have shaped historical forces since ancient times and discuss such key methodological issues as data quality. Topics highlighted include the political ecology of the Mayans the effect of climate on the Roman Empire the "revolutionary weather" of El Niño from 1788 to 1795 twentieth-century social, economic, and political forces in environmental change scenarios for the future and the accuracy of such past forecasts as The Limits to Growth.
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 27-06-2001
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-1999
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2012
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 08-2018
Publisher: Springer New York
Date: 2012
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2002
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2014
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Date: 09-08-2002
Abstract: On the eve of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, it is timely to assess progress over the 10 years since its predecessor in Rio de Janeiro. Loss and degradation of remaining natural habitats has continued largely unabated. However, evidence has been accumulating that such systems generate marked economic benefits, which the available data suggest exceed those obtained from continued habitat conversion. We estimate that the overall benefit:cost ratio of an effective global program for the conservation of remaining wild nature is at least 100:1.
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 12-12-2012
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2007
Publisher: American Chemical Society (ACS)
Date: 02-11-2018
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2001
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 03-07-2023
DOI: 10.1002/SUS2.144
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 03-1992
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2009
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Date: 28-04-1995
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-1986
Publisher: Elsevier
Date: 1983
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2000
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 02-2012
DOI: 10.1890/100151
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 02-2011
DOI: 10.1111/J.1749-6632.2010.05892.X
Abstract: This article reviews literature relating to the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) and aims to assess the current state of knowledge about (1) the "value" of ecosystem services (ES) provided by the GBR and (2) the way in which activities that are carried out in regions adjacent to the GBR affect those values. It finds that most GBR valuation studies have concentrated on a narrow range of ES (e.g., tourism and fishing) and that little is known about other ES or about the social, temporal, and spatial distribution of those services. Just as the reef provides ES to humans and to other ecosystems, so too does the reef receive a variety of ES from adjoining systems (e.g., mangroves). Yet, despite the evidence that the reef's ability to provide ES has been eroded because of recent changes to adjoining ecosystems, little is known about the value of the ES provided by adjoining systems or about the value of recent changes. These information gaps may lead to suboptimal allocations of resource use within multiple realms.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2004
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 29-08-2014
Publisher: Pleiades Publishing Ltd
Date: 04-2007
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 10-2015
DOI: 10.1890/150019
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2008
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-1999
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-1999
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 25-06-2021
DOI: 10.1111/JSE.12757
Abstract: Cyperaceae (sedges) are the third largest monocot family and are of considerable economic and ecological importance. Sedges represent an ideal model family to study evolutionary biology due to their species richness, global distribution, large discrepancies in lineage ersity, broad range of ecological preferences, and adaptations including multiple origins of C 4 photosynthesis and holocentric chromosomes. Goetghebeur′s seminal work on Cyperaceae published in 1998 provided the most recent complete classification at tribal and generic level, based on a morphological study of Cyperaceae inflorescence, spikelet, flower, and embryo characters, plus anatomical and other information. Since then, several family‐level molecular phylogenetic studies using Sanger sequence data have been published. Here, more than 20 years after the last comprehensive classification of the family, we present the first family‐wide phylogenomic study of Cyperaceae based on targeted sequencing using the Angiosperms353 probe kit s ling 311 accessions. In addition, 62 accessions available from GenBank were mined for overlapping reads and included in the phylogenomic analyses. Informed by this backbone phylogeny, a new classification for the family at the tribal, subtribal, and generic levels is proposed. The majority of previously recognized suprageneric groups are supported, and for the first time, we establish support for tribe Cryptangieae as a clade including the genus Koyamaea . We provide a taxonomic treatment including identification keys and diagnoses for the 2 subfamilies, 24 tribes, and 10 subtribes, and basic information on the 95 genera. The classification includes five new subtribes in tribe Schoeneae: Anthelepidinae, Caustiinae, Gymnoschoeninae, Lepidospermatinae, and Oreobolinae.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-1992
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2010
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2007
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2011
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2003
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Date: 15-07-2020
DOI: 10.1101/2020.07.13.20152397
Abstract: Some countries have been more successful than others at dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. When we explore the different policy approaches adopted as well as the underlying socio-economic factors, we note an interesting set of correlations: countries led by women leaders have fared significantly better than those led by men on a wide range of dimensions concerning the global health crisis. In this paper, we analyze available data for 35 countries, focusing on the following variables: number of deaths per capita due to COVID-19, number of days with reported deaths, peaks in daily deaths, deaths occurred on the first day of lockdown, and excess mortality. Results show that countries governed by female leaders experienced much fewer COVID-19 deaths per capita and were more effective and rapid at flattening the epidemic’s curve, with lower peaks in daily deaths. We argue that there are both contingent and structural reasons that may explain these stark differences. First of all, most women-led governments were more prompt at introducing restrictive measures in the initial phase of the epidemic, prioritizing public health over economic concerns, and more successful at eliciting collaboration from the population. Secondly, most countries led by women are also those with a stronger focus on social equality, human needs and generosity. These societies are more receptive to political agendas that place social and environmental wellbeing at the core of national policymaking.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 1984
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 18-09-2009
Publisher: Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Date: 11-2007
Publisher: Elsevier
Date: 1983
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2015
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2014
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2019
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 11-1993
DOI: 10.2307/1243998
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2020
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2015
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-1998
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 1999
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-1999
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
Date: 09-11-2020
Publisher: Pleiades Publishing Ltd
Date: 05-2007
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-1997
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Date: 21-09-2001
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-1989
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-1987
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
Date: 2021
DOI: 10.1039/D1CP03536C
Abstract: A photodetector based on a graphene–Mo 2 C heterostructure delivers very high responsivities from visible to infrared telecommunication wavelengths.
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Date: 23-06-2006
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-1993
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 30-06-2017
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2019
Publisher: Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Date: 06-2008
DOI: 10.1579/0044-7447(2008)37[241:TVOCWF]2.0.CO;2
Abstract: Coastal wetlands reduce the damaging effects of hurricanes on coastal communities. A regression model using 34 major US hurricanes since 1980 with the natural log of damage per unit gross domestic product in the hurricane swath as the dependent variable and the natural logs of wind speed and wetland area in the swath as the independent variables was highly significant and explained 60% of the variation in relative damages. A loss of 1 ha of wetland in the model corresponded to an average USD 33,000 (median = USD 5000) increase in storm damage from specific storms. Using this relationship, and taking into account the annual probability of hits by hurricanes of varying intensities, we mapped the annual value of coastal wetlands by 1 km x 1 km pixel and by state. The annual value ranged from USD 250 to USD 51,000 ha(-1) yr(-1), with a mean of USD 8240 ha(-1) yr(-1) (median = USD 3230 ha(-1) yr(-1)) significantly larger than previous estimates. Coastal wetlands in the US were estimated to currently provide USD 23.2 billion yr(-1) in storm protection services. Coastal wetlands function as valuable, selfmaintaining "horizontal levees" for storm protection, and also provide a host of other ecosystem services that vertical levees do not. Their restoration and preservation is an extremely cost-effective strategy for society.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 04-2007
DOI: 10.1038/446613A
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-1995
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2012
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 15-03-2012
DOI: 10.1007/S00267-012-9833-6
Abstract: The 'Perfect Storm' metaphor describes a combination of events that causes a surprising or dramatic impact. It lends an evolutionary perspective to how social-ecological interactions change. Thus, we argue that an improved understanding of how social-ecological systems have evolved up to the present is necessary for the modelling, understanding and anticipation of current and future social-ecological systems. Here we consider the implications of an evolutionary perspective for designing research approaches. One desirable approach is the creation of multi-decadal records produced by integrating palaeoenvironmental, instrument and documentary sources at multiple spatial scales. We also consider the potential for improved analytical and modelling approaches by developing system dynamical, cellular and agent-based models, observing complex behaviour in social-ecological systems against which to test systems dynamical theory, and drawing better lessons from history. Alongside these is the need to find more appropriate ways to communicate complex systems, risk and uncertainty to the public and to policy-makers.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 16-04-2010
DOI: 10.1007/S00267-010-9483-5
Abstract: We intend to estimate the value of ecosystem services in the U.S. State of New Jersey using spatially explicit benefit transfer. The aggregated net rent, a conservative underestimate for the total economic value of the state's natural environment, ranged from $11.6 to $19.6 billion/year, conditional on how inclusive we were in selecting the primary studies used to calculate the central tendency values to transfer. In addition to calculating the range, mean, and standard deviation for each of 12 ecosystem services for 11 Land Use/Land Cover (LULC) types, we also conduct a gap analysis of how well ecosystem service values are represented in the literature. We then map these values by assuming a mean value for each LULC and apply this to spatial data. As to sensitivity analysis, we calculate the net present value of New Jersey's natural environment utilizing three different methods of discounting. These research results provide a useful, albeit imperfect, basis for assessing the value of ecosystem services and natural capital, and their comparison with the value of conventional human and built capitals.
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 02-10-1997
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 23-03-2023
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-1998
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 12-1993
DOI: 10.2307/1352450
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-1999
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2012
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 2014
DOI: 10.1038/505283A
Publisher: Elsevier
Date: 1983
Publisher: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Date: 15-07-2008
Abstract: Global efforts to conserve bio ersity have the potential to deliver economic benefits to people (i.e., “ecosystem services”). However, regions for which conservation benefits both bio ersity and ecosystem services cannot be identified unless ecosystem services can be quantified and valued and their areas of production mapped. Here we review the theory, data, and analyses needed to produce such maps and find that data availability allows us to quantify imperfect global proxies for only four ecosystem services. Using this incomplete set as an illustration, we compare ecosystem service maps with the global distributions of conventional targets for bio ersity conservation. Our preliminary results show that regions selected to maximize bio ersity provide no more ecosystem services than regions chosen randomly. Furthermore, spatial concordance among different services, and between ecosystem services and established conservation priorities, varies widely. Despite this lack of general concordance, “win–win” areas—regions important for both ecosystem services and bio ersity—can be usefully identified, both among ecoregions and at finer scales within them. An ambitious interdisciplinary research effort is needed to move beyond these preliminary and illustrative analyses to fully assess synergies and trade-offs in conserving bio ersity and ecosystem services.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2023
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2006
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-1998
Publisher: Island Press/Center for Resource Economics
Date: 2011
Publisher: Faculty Opinions Ltd
Date: 07-2011
DOI: 10.3410/B3-14
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-1995
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-1995
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-1991
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2010
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 2000
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-1985
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-1999
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2000
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2010
Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Date: 14-10-2016
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 27-01-2016
DOI: 10.1038/529466C
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 2012
DOI: 10.1890/11-0561.1
Abstract: Urban forests provide important ecosystem services, such as urban air quality improvement by removing pollutants. While robust evidence exists that plant physiology, abundance, and distribution within cities are basic parameters affecting the magnitude and efficiency of air pollution removal, little is known about effects of plant ersity on the stability of this ecosystem service. Here, by means of a spatial analysis integrating system dynamic modeling and geostatistics, we assessed the effects of tree ersity on the removal of tropospheric ozone (O3) in Rome, Italy, in two years (2003 and 2004) that were very different for climatic conditions and ozone levels. Different tree functional groups showed complementary uptake patterns, related to tree physiology and phenology, maintaining a stable community function across different climatic conditions. Our results, although depending on the city-specific conditions of the studied area, suggest a higher function stability at increasing ersity levels in urban ecosystems. In Rome, such ecosystem services, based on published unitary costs of externalities and of mortality associated with O3, can be prudently valued to roughly US$2 and $3 million/year, respectively.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2015
Publisher: European Forest Institute
Date: 09-2020
DOI: 10.36333/K2A02
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 20-01-2013
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2016
Publisher: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Date: 24-02-2009
Abstract: A high and sustainable quality of life is a central goal for humanity. Our current socio-ecological regime and its set of interconnected worldviews, institutions, and technologies all support the goal of unlimited growth of material production and consumption as a proxy for quality of life. However, abundant evidence shows that, beyond a certain threshold, further material growth no longer significantly contributes to improvement in quality of life. Not only does further material growth not meet humanity's central goal, there is mounting evidence that it creates significant roadblocks to sustainability through increasing resource constraints (i.e., peak oil, water limitations) and sink constraints (i.e., climate disruption). Overcoming these roadblocks and creating a sustainable and desirable future will require an integrated, systems level redesign of our socio-ecological regime focused explicitly and directly on the goal of sustainable quality of life rather than the proxy of unlimited material growth. This transition, like all cultural transitions, will occur through an evolutionary process, but one that we, to a certain extent, can control and direct. We suggest an integrated set of worldviews, institutions, and technologies to stimulate and seed this evolutionary redesign of the current socio-ecological regime to achieve global sustainability.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 15-03-2023
DOI: 10.1177/20530196231158080
Abstract: Bio ersity change and increasing within-country economic inequalities represent two of the greatest global challenges of the Anthropocene. The most marginalized in society are often the most vulnerable to bio ersity change but there is no consensus on the relationships between bio ersity change and rising economic inequalities. To address this gap, we conducted a systematic scoping review of the literature and found 27 studies that explicitly examined the relationships between economic inequality and bio ersity. These were predominantly quantitative but also included qualitative, scenario, and review papers. The majority of studies (21/27) found evidence to suggest that more unequal regions had lower levels of bio ersity, and also that wealthier areas had higher levels of bio ersity. However, few studies investigated the causal mechanisms underlying the reported relationships, and there was little consistency in the metrics used to measure either inequality or bio ersity. Future research needs to focus on testing, or in-depth explorations, of causal mechanisms, with both quantitative and qualitative approaches needed. It is crucial that we understand how economic inequality and bio ersity interact if we are to meet the aims of reducing economic inequality and preventing further bio ersity loss.
Publisher: CRC Press
Date: 19-04-2016
Publisher: Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Date: 06-2009
DOI: 10.1579/0044-7447-38.4.186
Abstract: Agricultural ecosystems produce food, fiber, and non-marketed ecosystem services (ES). Agriculture also typically involves high negative external costs associated with, for ex le, fossil fuel use. We estimated, via field-scale ecological monitoring and economic value-transfer methods, the market and nonmarket ES value of a combined food and energy (CFE) agro-ecosystem that simultaneously produces food, fodder, and bioenergy. Such novel CFE agro-ecosystems can provide a significantly increased net crop, energy, and nonmarketed ES compared with conventional agriculture, and require markedly less fossil-based inputs. Extrapolated to the European scale, the value of nonmarket ES from the CFE system exceeds current European farm subsidy payments. Such integrated food and bioenergy systems can thus provide environmental value for money for European Union farming and nonfarming communities.
Publisher: Elsevier
Date: 1983
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 26-08-2022
DOI: 10.1002/SD.2234
Abstract: In 2015, all 193 member states of the United Nations (UN) adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). These 17 goals, 169 targets, and 232 indicators (including over 650 indicators if all the sub isions are included) are intended to guide and improve sustainable wellbeing and life satisfaction for everyone on earth. Challenges include the fact that many indicators are not measured or reliably tracked in many countries, the cost of tracking is unclear, and no explicit overarching goal exists. To highlight some of the problems with this approach, we model life satisfaction (LS) survey scores by country, as a proxy for overall wellbeing, as the dependent variable against the official 232 SDG indicators. Using a constrained linear regression approach (LASSO), we identify a model that includes only 8 of the 232 indicators and explains 84% of the variation in LS. These eight indicators are proxies for economic, social, and environmental variables. We also cluster countries according to these indicators and LS showing correlation within geographical and cultural regions. We discuss these results with regard to the meaning and measurement of sustainable development vs. sustainable wellbeing and its relationship with LS and the SDGs. We recommend how these results can be used to prioritize goals and measurement efforts to create more meaningful and useful measures of sustainable wellbeing.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-1995
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2018
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 1994
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2017
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2018
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 25-02-2010
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2019
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2022
DOI: 10.1016/J.JENVMAN.2022.115178
Abstract: "Accounting values" (quantity * unit value), assessed with an assumption of a constant unit value, are often used in creating macroeconomic aggregates like Gross Domestic Product (GDP). This approach has also been used to estimate the total value of ecosystem services (ES) - the benefits humans receive from functioning ecosystems. In China, this has been referred to as Gross Ecosystem Product (GEP). While the concepts of value and ES may be understood from multiple perspectives, ESs' accounting values contribute important information to the discussion of land use trade-offs in China's protected areas (PAs). These trade-offs include (1) whether additional conserved lands should be opened to tourism development, since tourism brings both positive and negative impacts (2) whether PAs should be reduced, maintained, or expanded, since PAs safeguard sustainable wellbeing but also require maintenance and (3) how to undertake conservation on lands traditionally used for human livelihood development, since conservation and livelihood may conflict. Previous studies have suggested (1) joint evaluation based on both GDP and ESs' values may lead to more sustainable decision-making than solely GDP-oriented evaluation (2) the benefits of maintaining terrestrial PAs in China is $2.64 trillion/yr, over 14 times greater than the costs (3) integrating ES valuation into environmental impact assessment helps link environmental impacts with human wellbeing and financial costs (e.g., land encroachment of a tourism highway in the Wulingyaun Scenic Area was estimated to cause permanent loss of ES values at $0.5 million/yr) and (4) integrating non-marketable cultural ESs into payment for ESs schemes can further balance conservation with livelihood development. Future research should consider (1) option and non-use values to present a more comprehensive picture of PAs' contributions to sustainable wellbeing and human interdependence with the rest of nature (2) both PAs' quantity (e.g., optimal coverage of PAs) and quality (e.g., management effectiveness, connectivity) (3) more sophisticated and feasible valuation methods (e.g., more cost-effective and engaged deliberation) to improve the credibility of aggregate values over large spatial scales and (4) interaction between environmental components and ESs.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2021
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 2014
DOI: 10.1002/APP5.16
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-1997
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 03-1988
DOI: 10.1007/BF01873389
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 08-2014
DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X13003142
Abstract: We heartily agree with the target article and focus on how positive sociocultural change can be accelerated through the systematic use of scenario planning – what we call sociotecture . Scenario planning is a design process for the creation and selection of symbotypes that make a positive difference. It cuts through complexity by integrating cognitive and affective processes across multiple scales.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 03-1998
Abstract: / This paper assesses the changing role of dynamic modeling for understanding and managing complex ecological economic systems. It discusses new modeling tools for problem scoping and consensus building among a broad range of stakeholders and describes four case studies in which dynamic modeling has been used to collect and organize data, synthesize knowledge, and build consensus about the management of complex systems. The case studies range from industrial systems (mining, smelting, and refining of iron and steel in the United States) to ecosystems (Louisiana coastal wetlands, and Fynbos ecosystems in South Africa) to linked ecological economic systems (Maryland's Patuxent River basin in the United States). They illustrate uses of dynamic modeling to include stakeholders in all stages of consensus building, ranging from initial problem scoping to model development. The resultant models are the first stage in a three-stage modeling process that includes research and management models as the later stages.KEY WORDS: Dynamic modeling Scoping Consensus building Environmental management Ecosystem management Policy making Graphical programming languages
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2017
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2018
DOI: 10.1016/J.CUB.2018.05.046
Abstract: Ecosystem services (the benefits to humans from ecosystems) are estimated globally at $125 trillion/year [1, 2]. Similar assessments at national and regional scales show how these services support our lives [3]. All valuations recognize the role of bio ersity, which continues to decrease around the world in maintaining these services [4, 5]. The giant panda epitomizes the flagship species [6]. Its unrivalled public appeal translates into support for conservation funding and policy, including a tax on foreign visitors to support its conservation [7]. The Chinese government has established a panda reserve system, which today numbers 67 reserves [8, 9]. The bio ersity of these reserves is among the highest in the temperate world [10], covering many of China's endemic species [11]. The panda is thus also an umbrella species [12]-protecting panda habitat also protects other species. Despite the benefits derived from pandas, some journalists have suggested that it would be best to let the panda go extinct. With the recent downlisting of the panda from Endangered to Vulnerable, it is clear that society's investment has started to pay off in terms of panda population recovery [13, 14]. Here, we estimate the value of ecosystem services of the panda and its reserves at between US$2.6 and US$6.9 billion/year in 2010. Protecting the panda as an umbrella species and the habitat that supports it yields roughly 10-27 times the cost of maintaining the current reserves, potentially further motivating expansion of the reserves and other investments in natural capital in China.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 09-1983
DOI: 10.1007/BF01867123
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-1985
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2019
DOI: 10.1016/J.SCITOTENV.2018.11.409
Abstract: China has a long history of building hard engineered coastal defences for storm protection, which enables us to examine the economic effects of the hard engineering to mitigate storm damage. Examining historical storm impacts between 1989 and 2016, a significant negative relationship exists between the relative economic damages (i.e., TD/GDP) by storm and the length of existing hard engineering within the storm swath. This indicates that hard engineered defences play a critical role in storm mitigation. We estimated that the storm protection value provided by hard engineered defences in China is CNY 3.18 million/km [US$0.50 million/km] on average, with a median of CNY 1.69 million/km [US $0.27 million]. They provide an annual economic value of CNY 6.04 billion on average. Despite their great contribution to reduce total economic damages from storms, hard engineered defences are not as efficient as coastal wetlands. Coastal wetlands are more cost effective based on comparison from China and USA. This study highlights the need for the Chinese government to transfer focus from prevailing hard engineered defences to ecosystem-based measure or the combination of both measures to prevent storm damage in the future.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2012
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2000
Publisher: Elsevier
Date: 2011
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2006
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 2010
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 1999
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2002
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2013
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2001
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2006
Publisher: Elsevier
Date: 1983
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 11-2005
DOI: 10.1038/438301A
Abstract: The non-participation of the United States in the recently ratified Kyoto Protocol is a matter for global concern because it is estimated that the country produces 24% of all greenhouse-gas emissions worldwide. Here we analyse the commitment of in idual states and municipalities to addressing this problem and find that, despite the federal policy, between 24 and 35% of the US population are currently (or soon will be) engaged in policies directed towards significantly reducing anthropogenic climate change. The importance of this sub-national effort, which we estimate corresponds to 27-49% of the gross domestic product, will depend--like the targets adopted in Kyoto--on the real reductions achieved in greenhouse-gas emissions.
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 23-04-2021
DOI: 10.3390/SU13094749
Abstract: Civil society engagement is important for enabling urban systems transformations that meet community needs. The development of Future Earth Australia’s Sustainable Cities and Regions: A 10-Year Strategy for Urban Systems was underpinned by cross-sectoral workshops in 7 Australian urban areas and interviews with key stakeholders to create a shared vision of both current and desired future urban structure and policy. We then created an online survey to gauge broader community feedback on the vision which emerged from these workshops and interviews, to compare their outcomes with the views of community members who could be directly impacted by urban decision-making. The survey consisted of 35 questions, which were shaped by the issues emerging from the workshops and interviews. The s le was self-selected, and the 641 respondents represented a cross-section of in iduals interested in sustainable cities. Our survey results supported and expanded on the major conclusions of FEA’s National workshop and interview processes, including the need to develop transparent and responsive decision-making processes, limit waste and pollution and develop effective housing and transport alternatives with mixed-use neighborhoods and adequate green space.
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Date: 10-07-1998
DOI: 10.1126/SCIENCE.281.5374.198
Abstract: Pressures being exerted on the ocean ecosystems through overfishing, pollution, and environmental and climate change are increasing. Six core principles are proposed to guide governance and use of ocean resources and to promote sustainability. Ex les of governance structures that embody these principles are given.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2018
Publisher: Annual Reviews
Date: 11-2001
DOI: 10.1146/ANNUREV.ECOLSYS.32.081501.114012
Abstract: ▪ Abstract Ecological studies of terrestrial urban systems have been approached along several kinds of contrasts: ecology in as opposed to ecology of cities biogeochemical compared to organismal perspectives, land use planning versus biological, and disciplinary versus interdisciplinary. In order to point out how urban ecological studies are poised for significant integration, we review key aspects of these disparate literatures. We emphasize an open definition of urban systems that accounts for the exchanges of material and influence between cities and surrounding landscapes. Research on ecology in urban systems highlights the nature of the physical environment, including urban climate, hydrology, and soils. Biotic research has studied flora, fauna, and vegetation, including trophic effects of wildlife and pets. Unexpected interactions among soil chemistry, leaf litter quality, and exotic invertebrates exemplify the novel kinds of interactions that can occur in urban systems. Vegetation and faunal responses suggest that the configuration of spatial heterogeneity is especially important in urban systems. This insight parallels the concern in the literature on the ecological dimensions of land use planning. The contrasting approach of ecology of cities has used a strategy of biogeochemical budgets, ecological footprints, and summaries of citywide species richness. Contemporary ecosystem approaches have begun to integrate organismal, nutrient, and energetic approaches, and to show the need for understanding the social dimensions of urban ecology. Social structure and the social allocation of natural and institutional resources are subjects that are well understood within social sciences, and that can be readily accommodated in ecosystem models of metropolitan areas. Likewise, the sophisticated understanding of spatial dimensions of social differentiation has parallels with concepts and data on patch dynamics in ecology and sets the stage for comprehensive understanding of urban ecosystems. The linkages are captured in the human ecosystem framework.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-1999
Publisher: Elsevier
Date: 2012
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2018
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2017
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 02-2017
DOI: 10.1038/542295B
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-1998
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2006
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 02-2006
DOI: 10.1038/439789A
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2017
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2013
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 02-10-1997
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 28-07-2016
DOI: 10.1002/APP5.147
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2014
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 02-10-1997
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 11-2006
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 02-10-1997
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 02-10-1997
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2017
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 02-10-1997
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 2006
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 02-10-1997
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2004
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-1989
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 02-10-1997
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2023
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 02-10-1997
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 02-10-1997
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-1991
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-1998
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2002
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2018
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 20-01-2013
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-1998
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-2012
Publisher: Pleiades Publishing Ltd
Date: 09-2007
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2016
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Date: 2014
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 02-10-1997
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-1992
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2002
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-1989
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-1984
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 02-10-1997
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-2018
DOI: 10.1002/APP5.259
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 16-12-2021
DOI: 10.1038/S41418-020-00698-4
Abstract: Alterations in the metabolism of iron and its accumulation in the substantia nigra pars compacta accompany the pathogenesis of Parkinson’s disease (PD). Changes in iron homeostasis also occur during aging, which constitutes a PD major risk factor. As such, mitigation of iron overload via chelation strategies has been considered a plausible disease modifying approach. Iron chelation, however, is imperfect because of general undesired side effects and lack of specificity more effective approaches would rely on targeting distinctive pathways responsible for iron overload in brain regions relevant to PD and, in particular, the substantia nigra. We have previously demonstrated that the Transferrin/Transferrin Receptor 2 (TfR2) iron import mechanism functions in nigral dopaminergic neurons, is perturbed in PD models and patients, and therefore constitutes a potential therapeutic target to halt iron accumulation. To validate this hypothesis, we generated mice with targeted deletion of TfR2 in dopaminergic neurons. In these animals, we modeled PD with multiple approaches, based either on neurotoxin exposure or alpha-synuclein proteotoxic mechanisms. We found that TfR2 deletion can provide neuroprotection against dopaminergic degeneration, and against PD- and aging-related iron overload. The effects, however, were significantly more pronounced in females rather than in males. Our data indicate that the TfR2 iron import pathway represents an amenable strategy to h er PD progression. Data also suggest, however, that therapeutic strategies targeting TfR2 should consider a potential sexual dimorphism in neuroprotective response.
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 02-10-1997
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2022
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 02-10-1997
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 02-10-1997
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 02-10-1997
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-1994
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 02-10-1997
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 02-10-1997
Publisher: Elsevier
Date: 1988
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 02-10-1997
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 06-1987
DOI: 10.2307/1310564
Publisher: WORLD SCIENTIFIC
Date: 14-03-2014
Publisher: WORLD SCIENTIFIC
Date: 14-03-2014
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2002
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
Date: 2018
DOI: 10.1039/C8TA01408F
Abstract: Dual-functional black phosphorus quantum dot electron selective layer was designed for plastic perovskite solar cells. The efficient electron extraction and improved perovskite film quality contributed to the reasonably high efficiency.
Publisher: WORLD SCIENTIFIC
Date: 14-03-2014
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 24-11-2020
DOI: 10.3390/EN13236160
Abstract: We present an alternative approach to estimating the spatial footprint of energy consumption, as this represents a major fraction of the ecological footprint (EF). Rather than depicting the current lack of sustainability that comes from estimating a footprint based on uptake of carbon emissions (the method used in EF accounting), our proposed “Renewable Energy Equivalent Footprint” (REEF) instead depicts a hypothetical world in which the electricity and fuel demands are met entirely from renewable energy. The analysis shows that current human energy demands could theoretically be met by renewable energy and remain within the biocapacity of one planet. However, with current technology there is no margin to leave any biocapacity for nature, leading to the investigation of two additional scenarios: (1) radical electrification of the energy supply, assuming 75% of final energy demand can be met with electricity, and (2) adopting technology in which electricity is used to convert atmospheric gases into synthetic fuel. The REEF demonstrates that a sustainable and desirable future powered by renewable energy: (i) may be possible, depending on the worldwide adoption of consumption patterns typical of several key exemplar countries (ii) is highly dependent on major future technological development, namely electrification and synthetic fuels and (iii) is still likely to require appropriation of a substantial, albeit hopefully sustainable, fraction of the world’s forest area.
Publisher: CRC Press
Date: 20-05-1999
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 03-1984
DOI: 10.1177/002234338402100106
Abstract: Social traps are those all too common situations in which people behave contrary to their own self-interest while making what appear to them to be rational decisions. These situations may provide useful models for explaining (and analyzing possible escapes from) the nuclear arms race. The literature on social traps is reviewed, concentrating on three recent books: (1) Social Traps (1980) by J.G. Cross and M.J. Guyer, which provides a taxonomy of traps and escapes: (2) Too Much Invested to Quit (1980) by A.I. Teger, which is a detailed experimental study of the dollar auction game, an easily repeatable social trap designed to study conflict escalation and (3) The War Trap (1981) by B. Bueno de Mesquita, which is only tangentially about social traps but provides supporting data and models on the history of international conflicts. Pos sible escapes from the nuclear arms trap are reviewed and the idea of a weapons tax to convert the trap into a trade-off is proposed and discussed.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-1994
Publisher: PeerJ
Date: 17-02-2015
DOI: 10.7717/PEERJ.762
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 04-09-2014
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-1998
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2019
Publisher: WORLD SCIENTIFIC
Date: 04-2014
DOI: 10.1142/8922
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-1989
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 1992
DOI: 10.1007/BF02393914
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2015
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2018
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2004
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 02-10-1997
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2023
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-1998
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-5347(98)01449-9
Abstract: Evaluating ecosystem health in relation to the ecological, economic and human health spheres requires integrating human values with biophysical processes, an integration that has been explicitly avoided by conventional science. The field is advancing with the articulation of the linkages between human activity, regional and global environmental change, reduction in ecological services and the consequences for human health, economic opportunity and human communities. Increasing our understanding of these interactions will involve more active collaboration between the ecological, social and health sciences. In this, ecologists will have substantive and catalytic roles.
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 02-10-1997
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 02-10-1997
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 05-1997
DOI: 10.1038/387253A0
Publisher: Pleiades Publishing Ltd
Date: 07-2007
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 02-10-1997
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 02-10-1997
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-1998
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 02-10-1997
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 02-10-1997
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 1988
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Date: 03-10-2018
DOI: 10.1080/20964129.2018.1538665
Abstract: The complexity of economic development and humanitarian crises means that energy science and technology should be involved in actions that address almost every major challenges of ecosystem health and sustainability. Energy is the engine of the world economy and the key to ecosystems’ functioning, which also has a great impact on global warming. The energy crisis, environmental pollution, overuse of natural resources, water supply shortages, global climate disruption, and deteriorating ecosystems are major challenges to address in order to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In light of the frontiers in energy sciences and disruptive innovation in eco-tech, we recognize the need to review and establish working mechanisms that identify and examine issues that are critical to future sustainable development, to offer advice to decision-makers in different social sectors (public and private), to secure a shared future for mankind, and to achieve shared prosperity and common interests through international communications and collaborations.
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 02-10-1997
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Date: 2013
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2019
Publisher: American Society of Plant Taxonomists
Date: 09-2016
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2007
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2002
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 2010
DOI: 10.1111/J.1749-6632.2009.05167.X
Abstract: The concept of ecosystem services has shifted our paradigm of how nature matters to human societies. Instead of viewing the preservation of nature as something for which we have to sacrifice our well-being, we now perceive the environment as natural capital, one of society's important assets. But ecosystem services are becoming increasingly scarce. In order to stop this trend, the challenge is to provoke society to acknowledge the value of natural capital. Ecosystem services valuation (ESV) is the method to tackle such a challenge. ESV is the process of assessing the contributions of ecosystem services to sustainable scale, fair distribution, and efficient allocation. It is a tool that (1) provides for comparisons of natural capital to physical and human capital in regard to their contributions to human welfare (2) monitors the quantity and quality of natural capital over time with respect to its contribution to human welfare and (3) provides for evaluation of projects that will affect natural capital stocks. This review covers: (1) what has been done in ESV research in the last 50 years (2) how it has been used in ecosystem management and (3) prospects for the future. Our survey of the literature has shown that over time, there has been movement toward a more transdisciplinary approach to ESV research which is more consistent with the nature of the problems being addressed. On the other hand, the contribution of ESV to ecosystem management has not been as significant as hoped nor as clearly defined. Conclusions drawn from the review are as follows: first, ESV researchers will have to transcend disciplinary boundaries and synthesize tools, skills, and methodologies from various disciplines second, ESV research has to become more problem-driven rather than tool-driven because ultimately the success of ESV will be judged on how well it facilitates real-world decision making and the conservation of natural capital.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-1995
Publisher: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Date: 14-07-2009
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