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      <title>A pluralistic approach to ecosystem services evaluation</title>
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      <description>Title: A pluralistic approach to ecosystem services evaluation
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Turner, Kerry
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: The purpose of this note is to contribute to the emerging common understanding between the natural science, economic and social science perspectives on the 'value' of ecosystems and biodiversity. Given the inherent complexity of nature it is not surprising that the concept of 'value is capable of multiple interpretation and meaning. A number of different dimensions of nature-based value can be simply discerned and evaluated in different ways eg in monetary terms via economic analysis; in biophysical and geochemical terms via natural science; and in more qualitative terms via sociology, cultural geography, arts and humanities etc. Each of these value dimensions has validity in its own domain.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:58:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Review article: Constraints on policy transfer</title>
      <link>http://hdl.handle.net/10419/48824</link>
      <description>Title: Review article: Constraints on policy transfer
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Benson, David
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: Policy transfer and its analogous term lesson drawing have received widespread and continuing attention in the public policy literature. To date, most theoretical and analytical approaches have centred on exploring the characteristics or mechanics of policy transfer, or promoting this concept as a normative project for improving policy-making. Surprisingly less attention has been given to systematically theorising the actual constraints on this process despite inherent and widely recorded difficulties with undertaking policy transfer in practice. This paper therefore reviews the policy transfer literature to draw out critical constraints, classifying them according to their position in the transfer process: demand-side constraints; programmatic constraints; contextual constraints; and, application constraints. One feature of the literature to date is how these constraints have primarily been related to 'hard' policy transfer, peer-to-peer between national governments. This paper therefore begins to examine how constraints for 'soft' policy transfer manifest themselves across the increasingly multi-levelled, collaborative and networked political landscape of contemporary governance; under the wire of national government control. Further development of this theoretical framework could aid the assessment of policies/lessons for potential transfer.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:58:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Ecosystem valuation: Some principles and a partial application</title>
      <link>http://hdl.handle.net/10419/48823</link>
      <description>Title: Ecosystem valuation: Some principles and a partial application
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Morse-Jones, Sian; Turner, R. Kerry; Fisher, Brendan; Luisetti, Tiziana
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: Understanding the economic value of nature and the services it provides to humanity has become increasingly important for local, national and global policy and decision making. However, problems arise in that it is difficult to obtain meaningful values for goods and services that ecosystems provide which have no formal market, or are characteristically intangible. Additional problems occur when economic methods are applied inappropriately and when the importance of ecosystem maintenance for human welfare is underestimated. In this article we provide clarification to practitioners on important considerations in ecosystem services valuation. We first review and adapt definitions of ecosystem services in order to make an operational link to valuation methods. We make a distinction between intermediate and final ecosystem services and also identify non-monetary ways to incorporate regulatory and support services into decision-making. We then discuss the spatially explicit nature of ecosystem service provision and benefits capture, and highlight the issues surrounding the valuing of marginal changes, non-linearities in service benefits, and the significance of non-convexities (threshold effects). Finally, we argue for a sequential decision support system that can lead to a more integrated and rigorous approach to ecosystem valuation and illustrate some of its features in an Afro-montane and a coastal ecosystem context.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:58:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Developing a critical model to evaluate the appropriateness of local body climate protection policies: the case of Freiburg</title>
      <link>http://hdl.handle.net/10419/48822</link>
      <description>Title: Developing a critical model to evaluate the appropriateness of local body climate protection policies: the case of Freiburg
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Galvin, Ray
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: Sub-national governments are now seen as having an important role to play in climate protection. Initial research in this area sought to identify their initiatives in climate change mitigation and theorize their role in relation to national and international climate protection policies. Because of the wide variations of constitutional arrangements that restrict and enable these bodies, it has been difficult to compare their efforts, particularly across national boundaries. However Bulkeley and Kern offer a conceptual framework of four 'modes of governing' that are common to local authorities, enabling their efforts to be compared more meaningfully. This schema is used in an empirical study of Freiburg´s climate protection program. The schema facilitates identification of the full range of Freiburg´s climate initiatives, but is not designed to account for the inappropriateness and counter-productiveness of some of the city´s key climate policies. It is therefore extended in two ways. First, using Hajer´s 'argumentative discourse' approach, the dominant discourses that drive Freiburg´s climate policies are examined, together with how these are held in place cognitively and institutionally. Secondly, a rationale is offered for examining the 'descriptive elements' of environmental discourse in terms of their correspondence to the way the world is. This approach enables a close critique of these discourses, which provides an explanation as to why Freiburg´s climate protection strategy has led to disappointing results. This model is offered for research on other sub-national bodies' climate programmes, and as a means of helping policymakers adopt a more self-critical approach.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:58:59 GMT</pubDate>
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