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Valuing Ecosystem Services

From SDG Academy on 5 August, 2019

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Ecosystem services can be divided among those that are provisioning; those that produce market goods that are consumed by human beings; those that regulate the provision…

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Fisheries Economics and Management

From SDG Academy on 31 July, 2019

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In the period from 1950 to the late 1980s, global catches in fishers have increased from less than 20 million tons per year to about 80 million tons per year. They have…

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Our Ocean: A Finite Resource

From SDG Academy on 31 July, 2019

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The ocean has always sparked human curiosity. In the mid-20th century, people began to realize that there are limits to what humanity should do to our planet before it…

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Payment for Environmental Services

From SDG Academy on 5 August, 2019

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Payment for Environmental Services (PES), created by Ronald Coase, is a valuation concept scheme that grew out of concern about deforestation and led to wide-scale…

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Political Tripod and Authorizing Environment

From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019

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in this chapter, Paul Collier looks at the politics of how the economic decision chain, from the discovery process of natural resources to domestic investments. He…

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Sustainable Management of Fisheries

From SDG Academy on 31 July, 2019

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In this chapter Martin Quaas gives some arguments for an economic solution to the global overfishing problem. The fundamental problem is that there is a price for fish…

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Economic Models for Sustainability and the Ocean

From SDG Academy on 31 July, 2019

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This chapter introduces various perspectives on the ocean's ecosystem services and how they should be accounted for in economic modeling.

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Marine Ecosystem Change and Services

From SDG Academy on 31 July, 2019

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This chapter discusses the economic value and ecosystem services of the ocean. The world fisheries and mariculture sector make up multibillion dollar industries, and the…

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The Cost of Inaction

From SDG Academy on 5 August, 2019

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Peter May profiles different frameworks for evaluating the sustainability of terrestrial ecosystems. One such framework is the Pressure-State-Response Framework (PSR),…

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Valuing Ocean Assets

From SDG Academy on 31 July, 2019

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This chapter examines in more detail the value of the ocean's ecosystem services and the valuation of natural capital.

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