Economic assessment of climate change impacts on biodiversity, ecosystem services and human well-being : an application to European forest ecosystems

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dc.contributor.advisor Carraro, Carlo it_IT
dc.contributor.advisor Nunes, Paulo A.L.D. it_IT
dc.contributor.author Ding, Hongyu <1980> it_IT
dc.date.accessioned 2011-07-16T07:45:30Z it_IT
dc.date.accessioned 2012-07-30T16:04:38Z
dc.date.available 2011-07-16T07:45:30Z it_IT
dc.date.available 2012-07-30T16:04:38Z
dc.date.issued 2011-04-27 it_IT
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10579/1115 it_IT
dc.description.abstract This doctoral dissertation is inspired by the major environmental and socio-economic challenges faced by biologists, climate scientists, economists and policymakers today, and is dedicated to the state-of-the-art literature in the cross-cutting research area where biodiversity economics and climate economics blend. In particular, this work is conducted by (1) developing a holistic, well-accepted approach that explores the mapping of complex links between climate change, biodiversity, ecosystem services and human welfare in numerical terms; (2) further extending the state-of-the-art methodologies so as to monetize the climate change induced impacts on biodiversity, ecosystem services and human wellbeing; and, (3) promoting and discussing the incorporation of the valuation results into the support of policy making, including ecosystem-based climate change mitigation policies as well as ecosystem-based welfare re-distributional policies. Finally, this dissertation demonstrates that the implementations of social and environmental policies are not always conflicting, but rather supplementary to each other. it_IT
dc.description.abstract Questa dissertazione trae ispirazione dalle grandi sfide ambientali e socio-economiche che biologi, scienziati climatici e decisori oggi devono affrontare, e si focalizza sullo stato dell'arte di quell’area di ricerca, dove economia della biodiversità ed economia del clima si fondono. In particolare, questo lavoro si propone di (1) sviluppare un approccio olistico che esplora empiricamente la complessa rete d’inter-relazioni tra cambiamenti climatici, biodiversità, servizi dell’ecosistema e benessere umano; (2) estendere le metodologie, comunemente utilizzate in letteratura, in modo da monetizzare gli impatti generati dai cambiamenti climatici su biodiversità, servizi dell’ ecosistema e benessere umano; (3) promuovere e discutere l’introduzione della valutazione ambientale come supporto per le decisioni, per esempio includendo delle politiche di mitigazione dei cambiamenti climatici oppure redistributive del benessere tutte incentrate sull’ecosistema. In conclusione il lavoro dimostra come la realizzazione di politiche ambientali non sia sempre in contrasto con le politiche sociali, ma piuttosto possa essere fonte di sinergie. it_IT
dc.format.medium Tesi cartacea it_IT
dc.language.iso en it_IT
dc.publisher Università Ca' Foscari Venezia it_IT
dc.rights © Hongyu Ding, 2011 it_IT
dc.subject Climate change it_IT
dc.subject Biodiversity it_IT
dc.subject Forest ecosystem services it_IT
dc.subject Economic valuation it_IT
dc.title Economic assessment of climate change impacts on biodiversity, ecosystem services and human well-being : an application to European forest ecosystems it_IT
dc.type Doctoral Thesis it_IT
dc.degree.name Scienza e gestione dei cambiamenti climatici it_IT
dc.degree.level Dottorato di ricerca it_IT
dc.degree.grantor Scuola dottorale interateneo Global change science and policy it_IT
dc.description.academicyear 2009/2010 it_IT
dc.description.cycle 23 it_IT
dc.degree.coordinator Giupponi, Carlo it_IT
dc.location.shelfmark D001045 it_IT
dc.location Venezia, Archivio Università Ca' Foscari, Tesi Dottorato it_IT
dc.rights.accessrights openAccess it_IT
dc.thesis.matricno 955424 it_IT
dc.format.pagenumber [2] c., VI, 169 p. it_IT
dc.subject.miur SECS-P/05 ECONOMETRIA it_IT
dc.subject.miur SECS-P/06 ECONOMIA APPLICATA it_IT
dc.description.note Doctor Europaeus it_IT
dc.description.tableofcontent TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I SUMMARY III SOMMARIO (IN ITALIAN) IV CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 1 1.1 Motivation 1 1.2 Research Framework 3 1.3 Objectives and Outline of the Study 6 CHAPTER 2 VALUING THE CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS ON EUROPEAN FOREST ECOSYSTEMS INTO THE FUTURE 10 2.1 Introduction 11 2.2 Climate Change Impacts and European Forest Ecosystems 13 2.3 Projecting the Future Changes of Forest Ecosystem Goods and Services due to Climate Change 17 2.4 Economic Valuation of European Forest Ecosystems in the Context of Climate Change 22 2.5 Conclusions 37 CHAPTER 3 WHEN MICRO- AND MACRO-ECONOMICS MEET TOGETHER TO REVEAL THE TRUE VALUE OF CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT, CONFLICTS OR COMPLEMENT? 44 3.1 Introduction 45 3.2 A Review of Economic Valuation Approaches to Value Climate Change Impacts on Nature 47 3.3 Developing a Partial-general Equilibrium Perspective Using ICES Model 52 3.4 Lessons Learned from Micro-and Macro- Economic Valuation Approaches to Estimate the Value of Ecosystem Services and the Respective Policy Implications 58 3.5 Conclusions 60 CHAPTER 4 MODELING THE LINKS BETWEEN BIODIVERSITY, ECOSYSTEM SERVICES AND HUMAN WELL-BEING IN THE CONTEXT OF CLIMATE CHANGE: RESULTS OF AN ECONOMETRIC EXERCISE TO THE EUROPEAN FORESTS 63 4.1 Introduction 64 4.2 The Future Pattern of Biodiversity in the Context of Climate Change 66 4.3 The Construction of Simple Composite Biodiversity Indicator 70 4.4 The Econometric Model 76 4.5 Concluding Remarks and Further Research 85 CHAPTER 5 THE SOCIAL DIMENSION OF BIODIVERSITY POLICY IN THE EUROPEAN UNION: VALUING BIODIVERSITY BENEFITS TO VULNERABLE GROUPS 89 5.1 Introduction 90 5.2 Methodology 92 5.3 Data 95 5.4 Spatial Analysis of the Dependency of Human Livelihoods on Benefits of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in Europe 103 5.5 Conclusions and Policy Recommendations for the EU 113 CHAPTER 6 CONCLUSIONS 119 6.1 Research Conclusions 119 6.2 Policy Implications 127 6.3 Limitations and Future Research 130 BIBLIOGRAPHY 133 ACRONYM 140 APPENDIX 141 CURRICULUM VITAE 165 it_IT
dc.identifier.bibliographiccitation Ding, H. (2011). "Economic assessment of climate change impacts on biodiversity, ecosystem services and human well-being : an application to European forest ecosystems, Doctoral dissertation submitted in April 2011 to the Department of Economics, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy it_IT
dc.degree.discipline Environment it_IT


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