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Category : Habitat conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 60
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A Method for Estimating the Economic Effects of Habitat Protection
Author: Perspectives on Biodiversity
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 030906581X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Resource-management decisions, especially in the area of protecting and maintaining biodiversity, are usually incremental, limited in time by the ability to forecast conditions and human needs, and the result of tradeoffs between conservation and other management goals. The individual decisions may not have a major effect but can have a cumulative major effect. Perspectives on Biodiversity reviews current understanding of the value of biodiversity and the methods that are useful in assessing that value in particular circumstances. It recommends and details a list of components-including diversity of species, genetic variability within and among species, distribution of species across the ecosystem, the aesthetic satisfaction derived from diversity, and the duty to preserve and protect biodiversity. The book also recommends that more information about the role of biodiversity in sustaining natural resources be gathered and summarized in ways useful to managers. Acknowledging that decisions about biodiversity are necessarily qualitative and change over time because of the nonmarket nature of so many of the values, the committee recommends periodic reviews of management decisions.
A Method for Estimating the Economic Effects of Habitat Protection
Author: Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1450
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Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1484
Book Description
The Economic Value of Biodiversity
Author: David PearcePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134165226
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
Biodiversity loss is one of the major resource problems facing the world, and the policy options available are restricted by inappropriate economic tools which fail to capture the value of species and their variety. This study describes in non-technical terms how cost-benefit analysis techniques can be applied to species and species loss, and how they provide a measure of the efficiency of conservation measures. Only when conservation can be shown to pass such a basic economic test, the authors claim, will it be incorporated into policies.;David Pearce has also written Blueprint for a Green Economy.
Recovery Plan for the Northern Spotted Owl - Draft
Author: A Method for Estimating the Economic Effects of Habitat Protection
Author: Eco NorthwestPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780260686558
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Excerpt from A Method for Estimating the Economic Effects of Habitat Protection: Final Report In July, 1993, the Service's Portland Field Office contracted with eco Northwest to develop a method for evaluating the full range of the potential economic effects of one type of habitat protection, the designation of critical habitat for a threatened or endangered species. Specifically, our task is to provide the Service with a framework for assessing a designation's long-run impacts as well as its short-run impacts, its impacts on the habitat-degrading industry as well as its impacts on industries that incur spillover costs from habitat degradation, and impacts on an area's quality of life as well as its impacts on the area's industries. Our charge does not include the development of an analytical method de novo and in toto. Instead, our objective is to provide the Service with guidance for expanding the scope of its current policies and procedures governing the analysis of the economic effects of a critical habitat designation. In Chapter 1 we introduce the problem and outline the logic underlying our recommendations for responding to it. In Chapters 2 5 we present analytical guidelines we recommend the Service use to modify its current policies and procedures so they embrace the full set of economic effects that might accompany a critical-habitat designation. In Chapter 3 we also outline a multi-sector model for estimating a designation's long-run effects on a local or regional economy. This is our final report. It was prepared by Ernie Niemi, Art O'sullivan, and Ed Whitelaw. We gratefully acknowledge the assistance of Robin Bown and Josh Millman at the Portland Field Office, as well as the invaluable comments and insights of Paul Courant and a panel of reviewers: Despite this assistance, one should not attribute any flaws in this report to anyone other than the authors. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Approaches for Ecosystem Services Valuation for the Gulf of Mexico After the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309211794
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon platform drilling the Macondo well in Mississippi Canyon Block 252 (DWH) exploded, killing 11 workers and injuring another 17. The DWH oil spill resulted in nearly 5 million barrels (approximately 200 million gallons) of crude oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico (GoM). The full impacts of the spill on the GoM and the people who live and work there are unknown but expected to be considerable, and will be expressed over years to decades. In the short term, up to 80,000 square miles of the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) were closed to fishing, resulting in loss of food, jobs and recreation. The DWH oil spill immediately triggered a process under the U.S. Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (OPA) to determine the extent and severity of the "injury" (defined as an observable or measurable adverse change in a natural resource or impairment of a natural resource service) to the public trust, known as the Natural Resources Damage Assessment (NRDA). The assessment, undertaken by the trustees (designated technical experts who act on behalf of the public and who are tasked with assessing the nature and extent of site-related contamination and impacts), requires: (1) quantifying the extent of damage; (2) developing, implementing, and monitoring restoration plans; and (3) seeking compensation for the costs of assessment and restoration from those deemed responsible for the injury. This interim report provides options for expanding the current effort to include the analysis of ecosystem services to help address the unprecedented scale of this spill in U.S. waters and the challenges it presents to those charged with undertaking the damage assessment.
Federal Forest Management
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Forests and Public Land ManagementPublisher:
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Category : Ecosystem management
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description