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Valuing Ecosystem Services: Toward Better Environmental Decision-Making

This appendix provides technical details on the modeling of production function approaches to valuing aquatic ecosystems discussed in Chapter 4. The general production function (PF) approach of ...
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Creating a scale to measure the value of our natural environment

Economics and the problems facing the earth are intertwined. Human economic activity has caused global warming and a biodiversity preservation crisis. Graduate School of Human Development and ...
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Philosophy aligns with economics on how to value future generations in climate policy

A survey of philosophers finds they broadly agree with economists on the best way of valuing the environment of the future in policy decisions made now -- although for different reasons. A survey of ...
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Using contingent valuation for a conservation and restoration program - Utilisation de l'évaluation contingente pour un programme de conservation et de restauration: The case ...

The Dominican Republic has a national system of protected areas integrated for 128 conservation units, covering a land area of 1.2 million hectares, representing around one-quarter of the country's ...
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Valuing Ecosystem Services: Toward Better Environmental Decision-Making

This appendix discusses in more detail the modeling of household production methods of valuing aquatic ecosystem services discussed in Chapter 4. Household production function (HPF) approaches involve ...