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From SDG Academy on 5 August, 2019
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… -
From SDG Academy on 31 July, 2019
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… -
From SDG Academy on 31 July, 2019
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… -
From SDG Academy on 31 July, 2019
This chapter introduces various perspectives on the ocean's ecosystem services and how they should be accounted for in economic modeling. This video is licensed… -
From SDG Academy on 20 August, 2019
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… -
From SDG Academy on 31 July, 2019
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… -
From SDG Academy on 31 July, 2019
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… -
From SDG Academy on 31 July, 2019
This chapter examines in more detail the value of the ocean's ecosystem services and the valuation of natural capital. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA… -
From SDG Academy on 5 August, 2019
Peter May profiles different frameworks for evaluating the sustainability of terrestrial ecosystems. One such framework is the Pressure-State-Response Framework (PSR),… -
From SDG Academy on 5 August, 2019
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…