Wetlands
Wetlands

Author: Jayanthi Murali

Publisher:

Published: 2021-01-16

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 9781649837165

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Wetlands are among the most productive life-supporting systems of the world with immense socio-economic, ecological and bio-aesthetic importance. They are also one of the most threatened habitats in the world, facing degradation due to ill-planned urbanization, industrialization and encroachments. A wetland ecosystem provides innumerable tangible and intangible benefits to society, the value of which, due to being difficult to quantify and document, is often not disseminated to policymakers and the general public. Hence, economists have developed non-market approaches to address these difficult issues related to the valuation of the environment. This is to counter planning and development decisions made purely on economic grounds, on the basis of the forces at play in the free-market system. This book details the ecological importance, environmental degradation, threats, changes in land use and related key issues of Pallikaranai Marsh. It also provides an economic evaluation of the Marsh to guide policymakers and planners in decision-making processes at both the macro- and micro-level. Students, researchers and policymakers will benefit from this book in conducting wetland research, framing suitable management practices and valuating wetlands.

Wetlands: Market and Intervention Failures
Wetlands: Market and Intervention Failures

Author: Kerry Turner

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-11-05

Total Pages: 187

ISBN-13: 1134048815

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Wetlands are vital and valuable resources, both as rich and unique wildlife habitats, and for the functions they fulfil - providing flood and sediment control and coastal protection, as carbon sinks and pollution buffers, for their role in storing and recycling nutrients, as well as for their recreational value. Too often, however, their true value has been overlooked or underestimated and they have been mismanaged or destroyed as a result. This volume, commissioned by the OECD presents four case studies of the management policies of wetland environments in the UK, USA, France and Spain. They show how both markets and direct intervention have resulted in failure, severely reducing the amount of wetland and jeopardizing the remainder ,and they set out measures that will mitigate damage in the future .Turner and Jones have produced an essential work in the growing area of environmental economics. Originally published in 1991

Estimating the Economic Value of Natural Coastal Wetlands
Estimating the Economic Value of Natural Coastal Wetlands

Author: Leonard A. Shabman

Publisher:

Published: 1977

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13:

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Public involvement with the management and use of wetlands resources has stimulated interest in obtaining monetary evaluation of the nonmarket ecological services of wetlands in order to better weigh the benefits and costs of altering wetlands. The most prominent study to date that evaluates wetlands is Gosselink, Odum and Pope's (GOP) The Value of the Tidal Marsh. There are, however, serious problems with that study that have not been recognized by the current users of those estimates. This report is a critique of the methodology used in the Value of the Tidal Marsh; it identifies the major conceptual errors in the methodology and demonstrates that there is reason to be skeptical of the estimates of the economic value of marshland.

Wetlands
Wetlands

Author: Tarun Bala

Publisher:

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 9788178807126

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Study conducted at Pong Dam Wetland of Kangra District of Himachal Pradesh.

Wetlands
Wetlands

Author: Jayanthi Murali

Publisher: Notion Press

Published: 2021-01-30

Total Pages: 165

ISBN-13: 1649837178

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Wetlands are among the most productive life-supporting systems of the world with immense socio-economic, ecological and bio-aesthetic importance. They are also one of the most threatened habitats in the world, facing degradation due to ill-planned urbanization, industrialization and encroachments. A wetland ecosystem provides innumerable tangible and intangible benefits to society, the value of which, due to being difficult to quantify and document, is often not disseminated to policymakers and the general public. Hence, economists have developed non-market approaches to address these difficult issues related to the valuation of the environment. This is to counter planning and development decisions made purely on economic grounds, on the basis of the forces at play in the free-market system. This book details the ecological importance, environmental degradation, threats, changes in land use and related key issues of Pallikaranai Marsh. It also provides an economic evaluation of the Marsh to guide policymakers and planners in decision-making processes at both the macro- and micro-level. Students, researchers and policymakers will benefit from this book in conducting wetland research, framing suitable management practices and valuating wetlands.

Wetland Economics, 1989-1993
Wetland Economics, 1989-1993

Author:

Publisher: Greenwood

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 158

ISBN-13:

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A major source of land use policy controversy in the United States and worldwide, for at least a decade, wetlands are the subject of a rapidly growing literature across many disciplines. This bibliography brings together the salient works on the economic and related restoration and delineation aspects of wetland resources. Covering recent literature, it includes 80 entries on methodological aspects of wetland economics and 195 entries on empirical issues, 74 entries on wetland restoration/creation economics, and 111 entries on delineation/definition issues. Each of the four major sections begins with a short overview of the literature, followed by an annotated bibliography. Most of the literature covered pertains to the United States and Canada, but relevant international works are included. Although most of the literature was published from 1989 to 1993, some earlier works are identified, and some early 1994 publications are included as well.