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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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Can Climate Finance Contribute to Gender Equity in Developing Countries

TL;DR: The authors conducted an extensive review of literature on forest sequestration, climate-smart agriculture, and disaster management, concluding that the effectiveness of climate finance is constrained from a lack of awareness of the gender gap in access to land and capital.
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Legal innovation in national courts for planetary challenges: Urgenda v state of the Netherlands: District Court of the Hague, 24 June 2015, C/09/456689/ HA ZA 13-1396

TL;DR: The Urgenda climate case in which the state of the Netherlands was ordered to reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 25% by 2020 has generated much interest both in the Netherlands and internationally as mentioned in this paper.
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Finding common ground: environmental ethics, social justice, and a sustainable path for nature-based health promotion

TL;DR: This commentary explores how environmental ethics can inform the connection between the ecosystem services from green space and socially just strategies of health promotion.
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Social-ecological Systems of Latin America: Complexities and ChallengesSocial Valuation of Ecosystem Services at Local Scale: Challenges for the Management of a Multiple-Use Coastal and Marine Protected Area (MU-CMPA): Isla Grande de Atacama: Chile

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss both concepts, based on the idea that social-ecological systems should be studied using a postnormal perspective, and provide an example of the study of a Latin American social ecological system: the Rio Cruces wetland.
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Assessing urban ecosystem services provided by green infrastructure: Golf courses in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro area

TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed a replicable process to assess how the supply of three urban ecosystem services (urban cooling, stormwater nutrient retention, and pollinator abundance) change with alternative land uses, using golf course development in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area as a case study.
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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

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A General Framework for Analyzing Sustainability of Social-Ecological Systems

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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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