[PDF] Top 20 The Future Value of Ecosystem Services: Global Scenarios and National Implications.

... four scenarios. Tundra was not a land cover category in the GTI scenarios and we also lacked estimates of its ecosystem service ...two scenarios (PR and GT), tundra area changes slightly (by ... See full document

... representation of land degradation for Australia includes most of Australia’s agricultural areas and even some of the central scrublands whereas the Imhoff representation is much more focused on areas of intense human ... See full document

... The scenarios illustrate plausible futures that can guide com- prehensive decision-making for future economic developments in regard to effects on the environment, ecosystem services, and ... See full document

... the Future“, made possible by funding from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) which is gratefully acknowl- ...illustrates, future-oriented methods of analysis includ- ... See full document

... the global scale. One example is the Global Unified Metamodel of the Biosphere (GUMBO) that was developed specifically to simulate the integrated earth system and assess the dynamics and values of ... See full document

... published global shared socioeconomic pathways (SSPs) (O’Neill et ...of global IPBES ...of future trajectories of economic, social, institutional, and organisational ...these global pathways ... See full document

... resilient future. Rather than a projection into the future, the PR scenario is a normative scenario constructed as a backcast from the ...of future sustainability ... See full document

... economic value of selected ecosystem services in the Eastern Ore ...economic services, used to identify economically utilisable services provided by undamaged ecosystems, can thus ... See full document

... Visual inspection of Figure 1 clearly shows that some of our respondents reside much closer to the coast, and thus the GBR, than others. Virtually all of our sampled properties within Townsville region were very close to ... See full document

... including: global futures (Gallopin et ...Millennium Ecosystem Assessment 2005), regional futures (European Environmental Agency 2009; Bohensky et ...the global level is the Special Report on ... See full document

... ES value (Tables 2 and ...its value (Table ...and global ES production and sustainability. Future scientific challenges in this area need to examine and define, by using a range of approaches, ... See full document

... the value of ecosystem services in Bhutan using a simple benefit transfer methodology based on land ...of ecosystem services is only an initial step in estimating its contribution to ... See full document

... the value of these two ES in New Zealand arable land were similar to the equivalent values in the other world regions ...inputs. Global pesticide and fertiliser use in temperate areas falls within the ... See full document

... marginal value per ha of each ecosystem and multiply by the quantity of each ecosystem service currently provided ...total value of marketed ...the value of any major component of the ... See full document

... capacity and resilience. Several barriers have stopped its expansion across Africa, including the productive and environmental performance, socio-cultural and political prerequisites, and opportunity cost (Mbow et al. ... See full document

... We simulated climate change effects on species distri- bution by fitting bioclimatic envelopes at 30’ resolution and by projecting spatial changes to this envelope at 10- year intervals. We used seven statistical models ... See full document

... the value of these services from numerous studies, converting all estimates to USD 2010 (see STAR ...median value of each service to generate a combined es- timate of the annual per-hectare ... See full document

... for ecosystem conservation and rehabilitation activities of the ...economic value of the PAs is vital important for the decision makers and policy planners, because they have lack of understanding of ... See full document

... of ecosystem services valuation is complex and uncertain, which makes ecological conservation and restoration difficult to be effectively put into ...ecological services valuation model to ... See full document

... “ecosystem services,” that func- tioning ecosystems provide to humans are two major objectives of nature conservation (Ehrlich and Wilson 1991, UNEP ...1992). Ecosystem services directly ... See full document