Environmental Economics

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

Christian Neumann, Linwood Pendleton, Marianne Kettunen and Tundi Agardy: The value of ecosystems and the associated services they provide is receiving growing attention both in the public and decision-making arena. The language of Ecosystem Services essentially translates the complexity of ecological processes and functions into descriptors that define the socio-economic-ecological link. The language of Ecosystem Services creates new connections.

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Green (Living) Review

AUGUST 22, 2015

Maddy Harland tells the story of the Shona African community who healed their damaged ecosystems. communities ecosystems permacultureThey restored their springs, rebuilt their soil, regenerated their agriculture and alleviated poverty and malnutrition.

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Permaculture Ecosystems Communities 2015 188

Nature Conservancy - Science

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

More and more frequently I hear about ecosystem restoration—the attempt to reestablish a natural ecosystem on degraded land. Sometimes I even hear that “designer ecosystems” might provide services or experiences similar to or better than nature. Ideas Ecosystem Services

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Environmental Economics

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

The  Chronicle of Higher Education profiles Gretchen Daily and the  Natural Capital Project : No one knew exactly how the science of ecosystem services would work, beyond the idea that it would combine ecology with economics.

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Greentumble

AUGUST 2, 2018

That area can be as large as the earth itself or it can be in a very small ecosystem such as the life in and surrounding a patch of moss on a fallen tree trunk. Biodiversity and the ecosystem sustainability. Ecosystem services. Ecosystem biodiversity. Ecosystem diversity.

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Environmental News Network

JULY 21, 2015

From: Smurfit Kappa Direct. Activism Natural Resources Sustainability Conservation

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Environmental Economics

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

I think if we tried harder, we could've squeezed a few more co-authors onto this one: Incorporating ecosystem services in marine planning: The role of valuation. Abstract: This paper scrutinises the use of ecosystem service valuation for marine planning. Current approaches to marine planning in both countries are presented and the role that ecosystem service valuation could play in this context is outlined.

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Environmental Economics

JULY 26, 2018

This Special Issue will focus on original research into the application of economic valuation methods to understand and measure the contribution of coastal resources and ecosystems to human well-being. Here is the link:  //www.mdpi.com/journal/water/special_issues/Coastal_economics_ecosystem. From the guest editors: Dear Colleagues, Coastal areas around the world are dynamic environments at the interface of terrestrial, marine, and freshwater systems.

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Nature Conservancy - Science

JULY 18, 2018

Invasive species populations grow exponentially putting conservationists at a considerable disadvantage. We will have a solution that can go viral. From the Field Forests Invasive Species Native Plants

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Ecosystems 2018 Forest Planting 54

Environmental Economics

JULY 26, 2018

This Special Issue will focus on original research into the application of economic valuation methods to understand and measure the contribution of coastal resources and ecosystems to human well-being. From the guest editors: Dear Colleagues, Coastal areas around the world are dynamic environments at the interface of terrestrial, marine, and freshwater systems.

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Elephant Journal

FEBRUARY 15, 2014

How Wolves Change Rivers ”When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.”

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Nature Conservancy - Science

JANUARY 30, 2014

If an ecosystem produces something useful, but nobody uses it, is still it an ecosystem service? If we become more honest and robust in our valuation, however, we will very soon find ourselves saying that some ecosystems in some places aren’t worth very much at all.

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Ecosystems 2014 Jamaica Wetlands 66

Environmental Economics

MARCH 25, 2016

environmental economists should have a lot to say about the last item under the first bullet point (a later slide mentioned "ecosystem services valuation" under "research agenda"

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Ecosystems 2016 Obama Integrity 158

Green (Living) Review

MARCH 3, 2017

Permaculture principles go a step beyond organic and help your plants truly thrive. Combining the best of natural landscaping and edible gardening, permaculture systems sustain both themselves and their caregivers.

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Permaculture Garden Ecosystems Permaculture 2017 170

Green (Living) Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

I had essentially grown a working ecosystem, one that had been waiting for the chance to emerge … The un-mowed plants in our yard attract plant-eating bugs and rodents, which in turn attract birds, bats, toads and garter snakes that eat them.

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Environmental Economics

JULY 9, 2014

Off-shore windfarms versus rare birds.who should win

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 21, 2016

The Ross Sea is the most productive stretch of water in the Southern Ocean, teeming with large predatory fish, whales, seals, penguins and other animals that form the last intact marine ecosystem on Earth. “Below the 40th latitude there is no law; below the 50th no god; below the 60th no common sense and below the 70th no intelligence whatsoever.” (“Antarctica” by Kim Stanley Robinson, 1998).

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Ecosystems 2016 Earth Russia 159

Green Prophet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Their numbers are amazing – according to their recently released report, the world’s loses ecosystem worth up to $10.6 The study authors have calculated the cost of the “lost ecosystem services value” our planet has suffered in the last decade and a half.

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Elephant Journal

APRIL 16, 2018

In the above image, you’ll see “Ecosystem Rating” top left. […]. Main Categories* Enlightened Society Waylon Lewis WAYLON: Today Only ecosystemYou can read the above article (I wrote it). It talks about…yes, nonpartisanship, and facts. But that’s not what this letter is about. This letter is about the most exciting thing in Elephant’s history since transitioning online, from a national ecoprint magazine 10 years ago.

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The Green Changemakers

OCTOBER 14, 2015

In other words, we operate our own proprietary ecosystem, designed to defeat toxic startup environments and to build scalable businesses. TheFamily — building our own private ecosystem against a toxic environment ‘Ecosystem’ : the problem is that the very term has become a bit of a cliché.

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Ecosystems Capitalism 2015 France 52

Elephant Journal

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Scientists now say that the effects from some of the world's biggest nuclear disasters are less damaging to the Earth than.

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Ecosystems 2015 Disaster Earth 110

Nature Conservancy - Science

JANUARY 17, 2017

Never underestimate the underdog — in sports or in ecosystems. Globally, grasslands are one of the most converted and least protected ecosystems (Hoekstra et al. Strategies that avoid conversion of ecosystems take advantage of this natural ability to offset carbon emissions.

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Ecosystems 2017 Prairies Climate 104

Green (Living) Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

In his own statement at the launch of the Decade, Mr. Akasaka stressed that stable ecosystems have the capacity to create jobs.

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Ecosystems 2011 Extinct Extinction 151

Wend Magazine

JUNE 24, 2011

For the duration of the summer season, tent camping will not be allowed in three of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem’s campgrounds in order to prevent dangerous incidents between bears and humans.

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Ecosystems 2011 Ban Banned 215

Nature Conservancy - Science

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Now, anthropological research shows that Martu burning — performed during hunting for sand goanna — actually increases biodiversity and benefits the desert ecosystem.

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Ecosystems Hunting 2016 Extinct 103

Eco Friendly Daily

SEPTEMBER 7, 2013

To others, it is a thing of beauty and an ecosystem alive with buzzing bees and fluttering butterflies. In reality, it is an ecosystem that is rich in biodiversity and habitat for a wide variety of organisms. Endangered Ecosystems.

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Eco Chic

OCTOBER 14, 2014

The video below is a must-watch, because in a brief and beautiful explanation, it is clear why top predators are so very important to healthy ecosystems. The post Watch How Wolves Rebuilt an Entire Ecosystem appeared first on Eco-Chick. Have you ever heard of Rewilding?

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Nature Conservancy - Science

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Her doctoral work here in Wyoming’s Bridger–Teton National Forest—just east of Grand Teton National Park and smack in the middle of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem—has included 76 radio-tagged nutcrackers. From the Autumn 2015 issue of Living Bird magazine.

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Nature Conservancy - Science

AUGUST 29, 2014

I hate that new stuff : Are novel ecosystems cheapening restoration policies? Woodpeckers pound their heads repeatedly with no ill effects. What can we learn from them? Photo credit: Flickr user Andrew Morffew via a Creative Commons 2.0 license.

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Ecosystems 2014 CO2 Emissions Conservation 83

Eco Friendly Daily

JUNE 9, 2013

Scientists predicted years ago that king crabs would some day enter and change the ecosystem in the Antarctic. Scientists now fear that the king crabs will overpower the ecosystem and destroy species already acclimated to the region.

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Ecosystems Extinct Extinction 2013 65

Eco Friendly Daily

MAY 16, 2013

But now Kenyans are struggling between providing for their families and destroying their surrounding ecosystems that they depend upon. USAID is also taking little responsibility for any ecosystem damage, pointing to local organizations to instruct locals about proper net usage.

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The Green Changemakers

MARCH 11, 2009

[link] GreenLearning's Science 7: Real World Ecosystems is an exciting, engaging resource developed by experienced educators to cover Alberta's Grade 7 Science curriculum (Unit A: Interactions and Ecosystems) in four sections: A. Ecosystems Basics: Life's Like That B.

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Elephant Journal

MAY 21, 2015

Will is not the parent winning and the child losing, or vice versa. Will—healthy will—is. Arts & Culture Blog (always click 4 all blogs) Enlightened Society (Politics, Active Citizenship, Social Good) Family, Youth, Enlightened Education Health & Wellness Crisis of Will doing For Children how to be a modern day parent leading by example parenting well-being

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Ecosystems 2015 Culture Society 71

Eco Friendly Daily

MAY 12, 2013

Keep in mind that oceanic ecosystems have been built under the 8.2 ” Acidification could easily destroy countless ecosystems, and therefore our own. Recently, a group of more than 150 marine researchers top in their field drafted a declaration entitled the “Monaco Declaration”.

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Green (Living) Review

MAY 16, 2010

In a recent interview with ScienceDaily.com, John Bailey, an associate professor in the Department of Forest Engineering, Resources and Management at Oregon State University, discussed the beneficial role that fire plays in managing and enriching forest ecosystems. Burning is a natural ecosystem process and generally helps restore forest ecosystems. Honest? Yet another study was required to find out what the ancients knew ages ago.

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Green Prophet

JUNE 2, 2011

And a new generation of Iraqi environmentalists as well as the Marsh Arabs have played their part in restoring a global ecosystem which has existed for over 7,000 years.

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Ecosystems 2011 Global Environmental Disaster 102

Green Prophet

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

“Nature has provided ecosystems and their benefits to us for free… perhaps because this capital has been provided freely to us, we humans have tended to view it as limitless, abundant, and thus perhaps always available for our use, exploitation, and conversion.” (p.3).

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The Green Changemakers

JUNE 7, 2011

[link] by Garry Peterson Ecosystem services for poverty alleviation ( ESPA ) is an exciting new research programme funded by a consortium of development and science agencies in the UK. I’m on ESPA’s international advisory board and they asked me for some thoughts on the ecosystem service science. The success of this idea has lead to many “payment for ecosystem service” schemes, which are now being implemented or are being discussed.

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Ecosystems 2011 Agriculture Capitalism 40

Eco Friendly Daily

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Zooplankton are a key element of water ecosystems as they are near the bottom of the food chain. Zooplankton are known to be disturbed by turbulence, however, a new experiment found that turbulence from boats my have an unknown number of potential impacts on water ecosystems.

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Ecosystems Impact Marine Biology Virginia 63

Green (Living) Review

JUNE 27, 2011

By Michael Smith (Veshengro) Bottled water consumption, which has more than doubled globally in the last number of years, is a natural resource that is putting a heavy tax the world's ecosystem. Even in areas where tap water is safe to drink, demand for bottled water is steadily increasing, producing unnecessary garbage and consuming vast quantities of energy, and, as we will see in an upcoming article, the use of plant-based PET bottles is not better either.

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Eco Friendly Daily

APRIL 21, 2013

People have known this for years about how our cities have become polluted and how our ecosystems are slowly diminishing. A recent study has revealed that the ecosystem in the northeastern and mid Atlantic United States is being seriously harmed by Air pollution.

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The Green Changemakers

JUNE 26, 2013

Documents Payments for Ecosystem Services: best practice guide A best practice guide to assist with the design and implementation of Payments for Ecosystem Services schemes. PDF , 10MB, 85 pages By Bridget Elliott on 25th June 2013 Defra has recently issued a Best Practice Guide on Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES), the publication of which fulfils an important commitment made in the 2011 Natural Environment White Paper.

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Eco Friendly Daily

JUNE 12, 2013

But according to a team of researchers from University of Colorado-Boulder, this is the site of the world’s highest microbial ecosystem. A 19,850-foot-high Andean volcano is an extreme environment highly inimical to any form of life.

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