Economic value of ecosystem services in the eastern Ore mountains

Vojáček, Ondřej; Louda, Jiří

doi:10.15240/tul/001/2017-3-001

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“…Due to the historic reasons the relationship between people and the landscape is not as strong as on the German side. Different results of the questionnaire-based preference analyses and the choice experiments (Vojáček & Louda 2015) may arise also from these circumstances. The different preferences concerning clearance cairns (overgrown versus unwooded) and mountain grassland (with/without grazing cattle) may be due to differences in management rules, the rarity of some landscape element specifications, and habituation effects.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Bateman et al 2002), especially on choice experiment method (Vojáček & Pecáková 2010;Kenter et al 2011) and the contingent valuation method. For more detailed methodological information on the questionnaire-based empirical studies and about results of this research see Vojáček and Louda (Forthcoming 2015).…”

Section: Cultural Servicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Negative changes to the landscape, such as a decrease of biodiversity or an increase in wind farms, would lead to changes in visitation and recreation patterns going as far as considering a complete avoidance of the area if these changes occurred. Concerning ES, most people considered recreational values and provisioning services (drinking water and air) as well as habitats for animals and plants as most important (Figure 10, Bastian et al 2015, Vojáček & Louda 2015.…”

Section: Aesthetic Valuesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Nevertheless, some differences in preferences between Czechs and Germans could be identified. People from Germany preferred overgrown (wooded) clearance cairns but also meadows with grazing cattle, while visitors from Czech Republic preferred both clearance cairns without woods and fallow grassland without cattle (Vojáček & Louda 2015).…”

Section: Aesthetic Valuesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Ecosystem services of characteristic biotope types in the Ore Mountains (Germany/Czech Republic)

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Syrbe

Slavík

et al. 2016

International Journal of Biodiversity Science, Ecosystem Servic

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The present transboundary study of ecosystem services (ES) focusses on a section of the Eastern Ore Mountains, a rural low mountain range in Germany and the Czech Republic. Aims of the study were to quantify five biotope types typical for the region (raised bogs, mountain meadows, clearance cairns, near-natural mountain forests, and near-natural streams), to identify some of the specific (not just monetary) values of nature in both countries, and to test appropriate ways to communicate ES aspects to stakeholders and the lay public. The study had to cope with countryspecific differences in terms of data availability, valuation methods, landscape pecularities, and relations between supply and demand aspects. The ES were assessed using both expert-based ('ecological') assessments and economic valuations (e.g. calculation of prices and costs, revealed preferences). Among the provisioning ES, particularly biomass/fodder from meadows, wild fruit, and timber were taken into consideration; among the regulating ES, carbon sequestration and water regulation; and of the cultural ES, landscape aesthetics and recreation. The values of (near-) natural ecosystems in terms of regulating and cultural ES exceed those of provisioning ES by far. The results were also prepared for environmental education using new media, such as scouting games and virtual nature trails supported by mobile devices (smartphones, tablets, or GPS devices).

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Ecosystem services of characteristic biotope types in the Ore Mountains (Germany/Czech Republic)

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Slavík

et al. 2016

International Journal of Biodiversity Science, Ecosystem Servic

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“…Sustainability typically has been viewed from three perspectives: environmental, economic, and social [3,4], although there are many others. Recently, perspectives on sustainability have been adjusted for different fields of its application, such as in regard to the environmental or green aspects of business [5], corporate social responsibility [6,7], social and cultural conditions [8], responsible research and innovation [9,10], economic progress [11], public health, community and knowledge capacities [12], making in the area of work motivation. A problem, solved in the article, consists of the explanation of selected attributes and components of effective decision making regarding motivation (such as the decision making process performed when/while motivating employees and managers), defined here as a crucial precondition of building the sustainability of organizations.…”

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Responsible Decision making for Sustainable Motivation

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This article examines motivation and the quality of decision making’s effect on motivation as important preconditions for organizational sustainability. The article is focused on an examination of the content and intensity of perceived motivation, and the forms of decisions that were made while motivating people. Motivation (from a theoretical and empirical point of view) is related to crucial processes of human potential development and motivation. The analysis, synthesis and generalization of knowledge related to sustainability, motivation and decision making in human potential motivation are presented in the theoretical part of the article. The empirical part presents the results of sociological questionnaire, focusing on the area of decision making in motivation that was carried out on sample of respondents in the Slovak Republic (n = 500), Poland (n = 390) and Lithuania (n = 226). The results confirm a strong correlation between the level of the motivation and the quality of key processes of development of human potential (leadership, appraisal, communication, and the creation of an atmosphere of trust). In all examined countries and processes, the calculated values of the chi-square test were significantly higher than the table value (level of significance = 0.05). The section describing the results contains a proposed content-componential model of decision making in affecting and building sustainable motivation.

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