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Valuing forest ecosystem services: What we know and what we don't
K. N. Ninan,Makoto Inoue +1 more
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In this paper, the authors review the studies that have tried to estimate the value of forest ecosystem services and discuss the shortcomings of existing studies, and suggest that future research should focus on the neglected ecosystem services, "disservices", assessing the role of dynamic factors and environmental catastrophes on the provision of ecosystem services.About:
This article is published in Ecological Economics.The article was published on 2013-09-01. It has received 157 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Ecosystem valuation & Ecosystem services.read more
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Limits of monetization in protecting ecosystem services
TL;DR: Although some aspects of monetization may be beneficial for biodiversity conservation, these schemes were not being used appropriately and require some quantitative minimum (or maximum) measurements to be applied through additional policy or governance measures to ensure biodiversity conservation outcomes.
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Assessing the financial contribution and carbon emission pattern of provisioning ecosystem services in Siwalik forests in Nepal: Valuation from the perspectives of disaggregated users
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assess how local users exploit financial benefits and emit carbon from the use of PS in two dominant community-based forest management systems (CF and collaborative forestry) based on proximity (nearby vs. distant users) and socioeconomic class (rich vs. poor users) in the Siwalik region, Nepal.
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Using Satellite Image Fusion to Evaluate the Impact of Land Use Changes on Ecosystem Services and Their Economic Values
Wang Shuangao,Rajchandar Padmanaban,Aires Afonso Mbanze,João M. N. Silva,Mohamed Shamsudeen,Pedro Cabral,Felipe S. Campos +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors validated the benefit of fusing imagery from multiple sensors to assess the impact of landscape changes on ecosystem services and their economic values in the Long County, Shaanxi Province, China.
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Evaluating the contribution of forest ecosystem services to societal welfare through linking dynamic ecosystem modelling with economic valuation
Giuliana Zanchi,Mark Brady +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed an integrated approach for evaluating the contribution of forest ecosystem services to welfare, by linking the results from dynamic ecosystem modelling to economic valuation and benefit-cost analysis to evaluate the impacts of alternative forestry practices on welfare.
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Trade-offs among forest value components in community forests of southwestern Amazonia
Christopher Baraloto,Paula Palhares de Polari Alverga,Sufer Báez Quispe,Grenville Barnes,Nino Bejar Chura,Izaias Brasil da Silva,Wendeson Castro,Harrison da Souza,Iracema Elisabeth de Souza Moll,Jim del Alcazar Chilo,Hugo Dueñas Linares,Jorge Garate Quispe,Dean Kenji,Herison Medeiros,Skya Murphy,Cara A. Rockwell,Alexander Shenkin,Marcos Silveira,Jane Southworth,Guido Vasquez,Stephen G. Perz +20 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluate the potential for trade-offs among different tropical forest value components, including tree diversity, carbon stocks, and both timber and nontimber forest product resources.
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The value of the world's ecosystem services and natural capital
Robert Costanza,Rudolf de Groot,Stephen Farberk,Monica Grasso,Bruce Hannon,Karin E. Limburg,Shahid Naeem,José M. Paruelo,Robert Raskin,Paul Suttonkk,Marjan van den Belt +10 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors have estimated the current economic value of 17 ecosystem services for 16 biomes, based on published studies and a few original calculations, for the entire biosphere, the value (most of which is outside the market) is estimated to be in the range of US$16-54 trillion (10^(12)) per year, with an average of US $33 trillion per year.
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Old-growth forests as global carbon sinks.
Sebastiaan Luyssaert,Ernst Detlef Schulze,Annett Börner,Alexander Knohl,Dominik Hessenmöller,Beverly E. Law,Philippe Ciais,John Grace +7 more
TL;DR: The results demonstrate that old-growth forests can continue to accumulate carbon, contrary to the long-standing view that they are carbon neutral, and suggest that 15 per cent of the global forest area, which is currently not considered when offsetting increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations, provides at least 10 per cent the global net ecosystem productivity.
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CO 2 emissions from forest loss
G. R. van der Werf,Douglas C. Morton,Ruth DeFries,J. G. J. Olivier,Prasad S. Kasibhatla,Robert B. Jackson,G. J. Collatz,James T. Randerson +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the second largest anthropogenic source of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, after fossil fuel combustion, is revised downwards, but tropical peatlands emerge as a notable carbon dioxide source.
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Soil Erosion: A Food and Environmental Threat
TL;DR: Soil erosion is one of the most serious environmental and public health problems facing human society as mentioned in this paper, and each year about 10 million-ha of cropland is lost due to soil erosion, thus reducing the croplands available for food production.