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Examining equity: a multidimensional framework for assessing equity in payments for ecosystem services

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In this paper, the authors present a systematic framework for the analysis of equity that can be used to examine how local equity is affected as the global value of ecosystem services changes, and how these dimensions are shaped by the scale and target group of concern, the framing of goals with respect to equity and how the decisions about the content, target and aims of equity are taken.
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This article is published in Environmental Science & Policy.The article was published on 2013-11-01 and is currently open access. It has received 418 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Equity capital markets & Equity risk.

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In Political Seas: Engaging with Political Ecology in the Ocean and Coastal Environment

TL;DR: The world's oceans and coasts are awash in a sea of politics as mentioned in this paper, and the marine environment is increasingly busy, changing, and a site of degradation, marginalization, injustice, contestation and conflict.
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Group certification supports an increase in the diversity of sustainable agriculture network–rainforest alliance certified coffee producers in Brazil

TL;DR: The authors assessed all coffee producers certified under the Sustainable Agriculture Network-Rainforest Alliance certified system in Brazil in 2011, comprising 55 individual farms and 11 groups of individual producers, and found that group certification has increased access to small and medium size producers compared to certification for individually certified producers.
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Valuing nature, paying for ecosystem services and realizing social justice: A response to Matulis (2014)

TL;DR: The authors argue for more precision in their claims, distinguishing across market-based instruments and across types of outcomes, and for a more nuanced account of the ethical connotations of such instruments, which should involve analyzing both unequal socio-economic relations and culturally bounded conceptions of justice.
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Distant Interactions, Power, and Environmental Justice in Protected Area Governance: A Telecoupling Perspective

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate barriers to equitable governance of four protected areas through an innovative approach linking the tri-dimensional framing of environmental justice with the notion of telecoupling.
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Building towards the marine conservation end-game: consolidating the role of MPAs in a future ocean

TL;DR: In this article, the authors review some of the existing views and approaches to defining and delimiting marine protection priorities, and recommend that with a clearer set of metrics for defining protection, and for assessing progress and setting future targets, marine conservation will be better placed to achieve lasting outcomes, including halting biodiversity loss and securing or enhancing ecosystem service provision.
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Justice and the Politics of Difference

TL;DR: Young as mentioned in this paper argues that normative theory and public policy should undermine group-based oppression by affirming rather than suppressing social group difference, and argues for a principle of group representation in democratic publics and for group-differentiated policies.
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Anarchy, State, and Utopia

Robert Nozick
TL;DR: In Anarchy, State, and Utopia as discussed by the authors, Nozick argues that the state is justified only when it is severely limited to the narrow function of protection against force, theft and fraud and to the enforcement of contracts.
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A General Framework for Analyzing Sustainability of Social-Ecological Systems

TL;DR: A general framework is used to identify 10 subsystem variables that affect the likelihood of self-organization in efforts to achieve a sustainable SES.
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Foundations of Economic Analysis

TL;DR: Recent statistical techniques, including nonlinear programming, have been added to a basic survey of equilibrium systems, comparative statistics, consumer behavior theory, and cost and production theory as discussed by the authors, and they have been used in a variety of applications.
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Anarchy, State, and Utopia

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