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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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Assessment of forest ecosystem service research trends and methodological approaches at global level: a meta-analysis
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide an overview of trends of forest ecosystem services research and methodological approach to studied FES, which is a growing field of research characterized by an increase in publication number.
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Mapping wildfire vulnerability in Mediterranean Europe. Testing a stepwise approach for operational purposes.
Sandra Oliveira,Fernando Félix,Adélia Nunes,Luciano Lourenço,Giovanni Laneve,Ana Sebastián López +5 more
TL;DR: This research focused on the development of a framework to measure and map vulnerability levels in several areas within Mediterranean Europe, where wildfires are a major concern, and showed the influence of fuel sensitivity levels, population distribution and protected areas coverage for the overall vulnerability classes.
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The Marginalization of Sustainable Charcoal Production in the Policies of a Modernizing African Nation
Nike Doggart,Charles K. Meshack +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe how national policies in Tanzania on energy, forests, agriculture, land, and water, consider charcoal, and the degree to which they do, and do not, support sustainable charcoal production.
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Towards better mapping of forest management patterns: A global allocation approach
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a systematic approach which integrates existing data to map forest management globally through downscaling national and subnational forest data, using multinomial logit regression and estimated the effect of 21 socio-economic and bio-physical predictor variables on the occurrence of a forest category.
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Stochastic Economic Assessment of Afforestation on Marginal Land in Irrigated Farming System
Utkur Djanibekov,Asia Khamzina +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the economic viability of afforestation on marginal irrigated croplands in irrigated drylands of Uzbekistan was analyzed considering uncertainty associated with on-farm activities such as crop production and short-rotation forestry.
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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.