Showing papers in "Ecological Economics in 2006"

TL;DR: In this paper, an enhanced framework for the valuation of ecosystem services, with specific attention for stakeholders, is proposed, which includes a procedure to assess the value of regulation services that avoids double counting of these services.

TL;DR: Research findings from around the world are used to show how the proposed process can be used to develop quantitative and qualitative indicators that are both scientifically rigorous and objective while remaining easy to collect and interpret for communities.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors assess the water footprint of worldwide cotton consumption, identifying both the location and the character of the impacts of cotton consumption on the water resources in the countries where cotton is grown and processed.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the concept and practice of sustainable development (SD) remains salient in confronting the multiple challenges of this new global order, yet how SD is conceptualized and practiced hinges crucially on: the willingness of scholars and practitioners to embrace a plurality of epistemological and normative perspectives on sustainability; the multiple interpretations and practices associated with the evolving concept of "development"; and efforts to open up a continuum of local-to-global public spaces to debate and enact a politics of sustainability.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors constructed a simultaneous model to study the FDI-emission nexus in China by exploring both the dynamic recursive FDI entry decision and the linkage from FDI's entry to final emission results under the intermediation of the scale, composition and technique effects.

TL;DR: In this article, it is shown that sustainability research for sustainable development has to be issue oriented and reflect the diversity, complexity and dynamics of the processes involved as well as their variability between specific problem situations.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify social justice dilemmas associated with the necessity to adapt to climate change, examines how they are currently addressed by the climate change regime, and proposes solutions to overcome prevailing gaps and ambiguities.

TL;DR: In this paper, night-time radiance data is analysed along with regional economic productivity data for 11 European Union countries along with the United States at a number of sub-national levels.

TL;DR: In this article, a decision framework designed for spatially explicit value transfer was used to estimate ecosystem service flow values and to map results for three case studies representing a diversity of spatial scales and locations: 1) Massachusetts, 2) Maury Island, Washington; and 3) three counties in California.

TL;DR: In the case of CO2, however, the evidence is at best mixed as mentioned in this paper, with the evidence pointing to an inverted-U benvironmental KuznetsQ curve.

TL;DR: The authors explored the relationship between pollution and reported subjective well-being (happiness) in ten European countries and found that air pollution plays a statistically significant role as a predictor of inter-country and inter-temporal differences in subjective wellbeing.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the effects of different characteristics of EMAS on technical environmental innovations and economic performance and concluded that a careful design of environmental management systems is important for both the environmental and economic performances of a facility.

TL;DR: In this article, a choice experiment is employed to estimate the values of changes in several ecological, social and economic functions that Cheimaditida wetland provides to the Greek public.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors review the literature regarding the aggregation of benefit value estimates for non-market goods and present an approach to aggregation which applies the spatial analytic capabilities of a geographical information system to combine geo-referenced physical, census and survey data to estimate a spatially sensitive valuation function.

TL;DR: The authors analyzed the effect of fuel mix, model specification, and the level of development on the presence and size of a turning point in the relationship between income and energy use and/or carbon emissions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the causality issue of income-emission relationship based on time series econometric techniques of unit root test, cointegration and related error correction model for a panel data set.

TL;DR: In this paper, a generic dynamic material flow analysis model is presented and applied for the diffusion of concrete in the Dutch dwelling stock for the period of 1900-2100, and the results show that construction and demolition flows follow a cyclical behaviour.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined conventional and environmentally sensitive total factor productivity (TFP) in 41 developed and developing countries over the period of 1971 to 1992 and found that TFP index value is not different when they account for the CO 2 emissions relative to the situation when they are freely disposable.

TL;DR: In this paper, a method that allows the disaggregation of national Ecological Footprint by economic sector, detailed final demand category, sub-national area or socio-economic group is presented.

TL;DR: In this paper, two slacks-based efficiency measures for modeling environmental performance on the basis of environmental DEA technology were developed, one is a composite index with a higher discriminating power for modeling economic environmental performance, and the other can be used to estimate the impacts of environmental regulations.

TL;DR: This article applied the choice experiment and contingent valuation methods to value the diversity of biological diversity. But the results showed that the public had positive valuation preferences for most, but not all, aspects of biodiversity, but they appeared to be largely indifferent to how biodiversity protection was achieved.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the social, attitudinal and behavioural composition of water saving activities using a sample of 1600 households from Devon and examined the links between water saving, energy conservation, green consumerism and waste management in and around the home.

TL;DR: The role of sustainability indicators as an evaluation method for sustainability within the emerging context of governance merits further analysis as mentioned in this paper, and the potential utility of indicators for policy and in what ways can indicators influence governance.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a historic perspective on the two projects, reports their preliminary impacts, and discusses the challenges in carrying them out, including the "top-down" administration, lack of inter-agency cooperation and long-term planning, and neglect of appropriate technical practices and market-based approaches.

TL;DR: In this paper, the macroeconomic forces underlying carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel use in Canada were investigated, and it was found that GDP/capita is unrelated to CO2.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate what determines observed differences in economy-wide material use among the EU-15 member states and identify determinants of the observed differences using an extended and revised material flow data set.

TL;DR: Sutton et al. as discussed by the authors investigated the contributions of four basic types of capital (human, social, built, and natural) to life satisfaction and proposed a National Well-Being Index (NWI) based on their findings.

TL;DR: This article studied the economic impacts of climate change-induced change in human health, viz. cardiovascular and respiratory disorders, diarrhoea, malaria, dengue fever and schistosomiasis.

TL;DR: In this article, the efficiency of programs supporting the conservation of forest resources and services through direct payments to land owners; or payments for environmental services (PES) was examined based on a sample of farms receiving and not receiving PES in the Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica.