Showing papers in "Ecological Economics in 2007"

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the term "ecosystem services" is too ad hoc to be of practical use in welfare accounting and propose a definition, rooted in economic principles, of final ecosystem service units.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a cohesive categorisation of the most common sustainability assessment tools within the broader objective of lifting the understanding of tools from the environmentally-focused realm to that of the wider concept of sustainability.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on how ecosystem services contribute to agricultural productivity and how ecosystem dis-services detract from it, and explore the importance of scale and economic externalities for the management of ecosystem service provision to agriculture.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of energy consumption and output on carbon emissions in the United States was investigated, and the Granger causality relationship between income, energy consumption, and carbon emissions, including labor and gross fixed capital formation, was investigated.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an integrative definition of QOL that combines measures of human needs with subjective well-being or happiness, and the policy implications include strategies for investing in opportunities to maximize QOL enhancement at the individual, community, and national scales.

TL;DR: In this paper, the linkages of soil organisms and ecosystem services essential to life on earth as well as with those associated with the provision of goods and the regulation of ecosystem processes are discussed.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an overview of ecosystem services from agriculture and non-market valuation methods, such as travel cost, contingent valuation, hedonic valuation, and cost-based or factor-income approaches.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors integrated the emerging information of the ecological, economic and social importance of the coasts at a global scale, and defined coastal regions to range from the continental shelf (to a depth of 200 meters), the intertidal areas and adjacent land within 100 km of the coastline.

TL;DR: Turner et al. as mentioned in this paper presented a detailed review of single and multi-region input-output models used to assess environmental impacts of internationally traded goods and services, and identified six major models that employ multi-sector, multi-Region inputoutput analysis in order to calculate environmental impacts embodied in international trade.

TL;DR: The authors reviewed the explanatory power of various sustainability indices applied in policy practice and showed that these indices fail to fulfill fundamental scientific requirements making them rather useless if not misleading with respect to policy advice.

TL;DR: In this paper, a non-arbitrary method of consistently delineating these supply chains, into mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive portions of responsibility to be shared by all actors in an economy, is presented.

TL;DR: The issue of evaluation in natural resource management is revisits and is recasts in light of complex adaptive systems thinking and an evaluative framework for adaptive co-management is developed which directs attention toward three broad components: ecosystem conditions, livelihood outcomes and process and institutional conditions.

TL;DR: In this article, the conceptual revisions needed to extend the new institutional approach to environmental governance from its current local and international domains of application to all governance solutions, including national environmental and natural resource use policies and multi-level governance solutions that are increasingly used to address global environmental change.

TL;DR: In this paper, a framework for identifying useful indicators for quantifying the costs and benefits of agricultural systems for the range of ecosystem services interrelated to agriculture is presented. And the relationship between agricultural practices and land-use change and erosion impact on chemical use is also discussed.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared three cases of payments for water-related environmental services (PES) in Central America, in terms of socioeconomic background, opportunity costs of forest conservation and stakeholders' perceptions of the conditions of water resources and other issues.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a framework for evaluating participatory research for sustainability in the context of social, political, environmental, and institutional context and select appropriate criteria, methods and data sources.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined whether neighborhoods in New Orleans were impacted differently by Hurricane Katrina based on pre-existing social, physical and economic vulnerabilities and found that particular socio-economic groups in the city were more vulnerable during the response and recovery phases.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the determinants of farmers' adoption and continued use of introduced stone terraces in an Ethiopian highland watershed and found that adoption is influenced by farmers' age, farm size, perceptions on technology profitability, slope, livestock size and soil fertility.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors empirically examined the relationship between environmental organisational measures regarded as integrated product policy (IPP) measures by the European Commission and environmental product innovations and found that the certification of environmental management systems has a significantly positive effect on environmental product innovation.

TL;DR: This article examined the relationship between measures of subjective well-being and attitudes regarding ozone pollution and species extinction using data from the British Household Panel Survey and found that a negative coefficient for concern about ozone pollution on individual's wellbeing and a positive one for concern regarding species extinction.

TL;DR: The co-evolutionary perspective outlined in this paper serves as heuristic device to map the interactions settled in the networks between the resource base, social institutions and the behaviour of individual actors to improve the management of social–ecological systems.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluate the current inter-regional trade structure and its effects on water consumption and pollution via virtual water flows, which is the water embedded in products and used in the whole production chain, and that is traded between regions or exported to other countries.

TL;DR: In this article, a review of conservation assessments and the extent to which they include ecosystem services is presented, highlighting the need to develop an integrated approach to meeting different conservation objectives and a shift in focus towards human wellbeing.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors conducted a meta-analysis of the literature on coral reef valuation studies and found that different valuation methods produce widely different values, with the contingent valuation method producing significantly lower value estimates.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the impact of institutional factors on the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) relationship between income and deforestation across Latin American, African and Asian countries.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present five socioeconomic poverty indicators (access to water, undernourishment, potential population pressure, number living below poverty line and debt service) and integrate them with an ecologically based hotspots analysis in order to illustrate magnitude of the overlap between biological conservation and poverty.

TL;DR: A model captures the stochastic and dynamic aspects of this trade-off by incorporating a detection stage in which the agency managers choose search effort prior to the post-detection control stage, illustrating that the optimal detection strategy depends primarily on the ‘detectability’, or ease of detection, and the biological relationships of each distinct species.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explain how the latest international handbook on environmental accounting, the System of Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounting or SEEA ( United Nations, European Commission, International Monetary Fund, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and World Bank), can be used to measure weak and strong sustainability.

TL;DR: Sustainability assessment models are based on an inter-disciplinary approach that recognizes the need for "accountings" that facilitate more participatory forms of decision-making and accountability as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: This article used a split-sample, dichotomous choice contingent valuation survey of 1574 U.S. residents to explore willingness to pay (WTP) for renewable energy under collective and voluntary payment vehicles, and under government and private provision of the good.