Assessing the costs of natural hazards–state of the art and knowledge gaps

V Meyer, N Becker, V Markantonis… - … Hazards and Earth …, 2013‏ - nhess.copernicus.org
Efficiently reducing natural hazard risks requires a thorough understanding of the costs of
natural hazards. Current methods to assess these costs employ a variety of terminologies …

The economic value of forest ecosystems

DW Pearce - Ecosystem health, 2001‏ - Wiley Online Library
Forest ecosystems are being degraded and lost because of rapid population change and
economic incentives that make forest conversion appear more profitable than forest …

[كتاب][B] The economics of biodiversity

P Dasgupta - 2024‏ - books.google.com
We are part of Nature, not separate from it. We rely on Nature to provide us with food, water
and shelter; regulate our climate and disease; maintain nutrient cycles and oxygen …

[كتاب][B] The economics of ecosystems and biodiversity: ecological and economic foundations

P Kumar - 2012‏ - api.taylorfrancis.com
Human well-being relies critically on ecosystem services provided by nature. Examples
include water and air quality regulation, nutrient cycling and decomposition, plant pollination …

Poverty, development, and environment

EB Barbier - Environment and development economics, 2010‏ - cambridge.org
This paper examines the complex relationship that exists between poverty and natural
resource degradation in develo** countries. The rural poor are often concentrated in …

Forests and trees for social adaptation to climate variability and change

E Pramova, B Locatelli, H Djoudi… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2012‏ - Wiley Online Library
Ecosystems provide important services that can help people adapt to climate variability and
change. Recognizing this role of ecosystems, several international and nongovernmental …

Co** with unreliable public water supplies: Averting expenditures by households in Kathmandu, Nepal

SK Pattanayak, JC Yang, D Whittington… - Water Resources …, 2005‏ - Wiley Online Library
This paper investigates two complementary pieces of data on households' demand for
improved water services, co** costs and willingness to pay (WTP), from a survey of 1500 …

The economics of managing scarce water resources

SM Olmstead - Review of Environmental Economics and …, 2010‏ - journals.uchicago.edu
This article surveys the literature on the economics of water scarcity and water demand. We
examine demand estimation in diverted uses (urban, agricultural, and industrial), as well as …

The economic impacts of droughts: A framework for analysis

J Freire-González, C Decker, JW Hall - Ecological economics, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Droughts are a specific type of natural hazard. Economic assessments of drought impacts
require a framework capable of accounting for its unique and particular characteristics …

[كتاب][B] Environmental and resource valuation with revealed preferences: a theoretical guide to empirical models

NE Bockstael, KE McConnell - 2007‏ - books.google.com
Environmental and Resource Valuation with Revealed Preferences: A Theoretical Guide to
Empirical Models provides a systematic review of those economic approaches for valuing …