The economic and ecological benefits of saving ecosystems to protect services

Campos, Felipe S.; David, João; Lourenço-de-Moraes, Ricardo; Rodrigues, Pedro; Silva, Bruno; Silva, Carina Vieira da; Cabral, Pedro

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.127551

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“…Including the economic valuation of regulating ecosystem services beyond climate regulation, such as those related to habitat quality or biodiversity, could also provide a more accurate picture given the relevance of nature conservation within the Biosphere Reserve case study area (e.g. Campos et al, 2021). A further extension of this study could also explicitly address the spatial arrangements of the proposed land-use changes, which can facilitate answering relevant management questions, such as how the promoted land-use changes can be arrayed across the landscape to achieve the greatest reduction in wildfire economic losses.…”

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Incorporating fire-smartness into agricultural policies minimises suppression costs and ecosystem services damages from wildfires

Lecina‐Diaz

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Global climate warming is expected to increase wildfire hazard in many regions of the world. In southern Europe, land abandonment and an unbalanced investment toward fire suppression instead of prevention has gradually increased wildfire risk, which calls for a paradigm change in fire management policies. Here we combined scenario analysis, fire landscape modelling, and economic tools to identify which land-use policies would minimise the expected wildfire-related losses in a representative mountainous area of the northwestern Iberian Peninsula (the Transboundary Biosphere Reserve "Geres-Xures", between Spain and Portugal). To do so, we applied the least-cost-plus-net-value-change approach and estimated net changes in wildfire damages based on their implications for the ecosystem services that affect financial returns to landowners in the study area (i.e. agriculture, pasture, and timber) and the wider economic benefits (i.e. recreation and climate regulation) for the 2010-2050 period. Four land-use scenarios were considered: (1) Business as Usual (BAU); (2) fire-smart, fostering more fire-resistant (less flammable) and/or fire-resilient landscapes (fire-smart); (3) High Nature Value farmlands (HNVf), wherein the abandonment of extensive agriculture is reversed; and (4) a combination of HNVf and fire-smart. We found the highest net value change (i.e. the difference between damages and avoided damages) in BAU for timber and pasture provision, and in fire-smart for recreation and climate regulation. HNVf was the best for suppression cost savings, but it generated the lowest expected present value for climate regulation. In fact, the best scenarios related to fire suppression are HNVf and HNVf combined with fire-smart, which also generate the lowest net value change plus net suppression costs in the entire study area (i.e. considering all ecosystem services damages and suppression costs). Therefore, reverting land abandonment through recultivation and promoting fire-resistant tree species is the most efficient way to reduce wildfire hazard. In this sense, payments for ecosystem services should reward farmers for their role in wildfire prevention. This study improves the understanding of the financial and societal benefits derived from reducing fire suppression spending and ecosystem services damage by undertaking fire-smart land-use strategies, which can be essential to enhance local stakeholders' support for wildfire prevention policies.

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Incorporating fire-smartness into agricultural policies minimises suppression costs and ecosystem services damages from wildfires

Lecina‐Diaz

Amil

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et al. 2023

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“…Benefit transfer has been widely applied in the ES valuation literature as a tool to inform policy makers [33,34]. This methodology complemented with GIS is applied in this study to perform a cross-sectional valuation.…”

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The Economic Value of Wetlands in Urban Areas: The Benefits in a Developing Country

2022

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Urban growth has impacted natural ecosystems such as wetlands. This situation destabilizes the beneficial contributions of nature, generating a socioeconomic effect. There is a need to quantify the benefits of wetlands in developing countries and urban areas, where the growth of cities is fastest. This is the first valuation study of urban and peri-urban wetlands in Colombia. The methodology includes a benefit transfer (BT) method with a geographical information system (GIS) and an exploratory governance analysis. Because there are few studies on the economic valuation of urban wetlands in Latin America, we present a methodology of interest, which can be easily replicated in other cities of this subcontinent. Based on an economic approach, our results find that 76% of the total value of wetlands is provided by ecosystem services (ES) of existence and legacy value, followed by maintenance of the life cycle of migratory species and water supply. Urban areas are identified where users benefit more than areas where the population exerts greater pressure on wetlands. Weak governance is due to the disarticulation between regulation, land-use planning, and the social-ecological system. This research contributes to urban wetland management policies, as well as to sustainable solutions in cities.

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“…The Global Status Report on Energy and CO 2 shows that China's greenhouse gas emissions have continued to rise over the last 3 years and the country remains the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases. In the context of China's new development path, eco-efficiency is an important factor of consideration in evaluating the quality of development (Campos et al, 2021;Qiu and Li, 2021;Wu et al, 2022). The 14th Five-Year Plan emphasizes the implementation of sustainable development strategies and promotes the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development (Chen and Huo, 2022;Chen and Wang, 2022;Ren and Wu, 2022).…”

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The impact of high-tech industrial agglomeration on China’s green innovation efficiency: A spatial econometric analysis

Liu

2023

Front. Environ. Sci.

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Eco-efficiency is an important factor in assessing the quality of development, and high-tech industries are crucial for countries to forge green innovation paths. However, few studies have examined whether and how high-tech industrial agglomeration affects green innovation efficiency. To fill this gap, we measure the degree of high-tech industrial agglomeration and the level of specialized and diversified agglomeration using the location entropy index and agglomeration factor, and calculate green innovation efficiency using the super-SBM model with undesirable outputs. Based on Chinese provincial panel data from 2006 to 2020, a dynamic spatial Durbin model was constructed to explore the impact of high-tech industrial agglomeration and different agglomeration patterns on green innovation efficiency. Our study found that high-tech industrial agglomeration is a significant contributor to green innovation efficiency. There is an inverted U-shaped relationship between specialized agglomeration and green innovation efficiency, and diversified agglomeration contributes to green innovation efficiency. Given the regionally uneven nature of China’s economic development, there is some variation in the impact effects within different economic regions. We demonstrated the leading role of scientific high-tech industrial agglomeration patterns and appropriate levels of agglomeration in green innovation, providing theoretical guidance for the formulation of China’s high-quality development policies.

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The economic and ecological benefits of saving ecosystems to protect services

Cited by 21 publications

References 70 publications

Incorporating fire-smartness into agricultural policies minimises suppression costs and ecosystem services damages from wildfires

Incorporating fire-smartness into agricultural policies minimises suppression costs and ecosystem services damages from wildfires

The Economic Value of Wetlands in Urban Areas: The Benefits in a Developing Country

The impact of high-tech industrial agglomeration on China’s green innovation efficiency: A spatial econometric analysis

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