Noticias
September 10, 2017
In environmental valuation, although it is well recognised that the choice of method heavily affects the outcome, little is known on how existing valuation methods actually elicit the different values. Through the assessment of real-life applications of valuation of nature, this study tracks down the suitability of 21 valuation methods for 11 value types and assesses the methodological requirements for their operationalization.
August 28, 2017
This paper investigates the empirical and theoretical basis of the decoupling between energy throughput and economic growth, with a critical view of the use of the decoupling concept as a policy priority. We provide an analysis of the historical trends of the metabolic pattern of European economies over a period of 18 years focusing on the changes in energy throughput and financial assets.
August 23, 2017
Biosphere stewardship is about humans recognizing that they are part of and indeed dependent on the biosphere to maintain their own well-being. When humans recognize that, they are also responsible for the sustainable use and protection of the living systems we depend on. But what kind of knowledge systems, values, management practices, behaviour and governance arrangements could help foster this biosphere stewardship? Ikerbasque Professor Unai Pascual from the Basque Centre for Climate Change offered his views on the issue. He highlighted the benefits of incorporating relational values in ecosystem assessments.
August 18, 2017
"La ONU contará con cinco científicos españoles para sus informes de cambio climático"El panel de expertos del IPCC elabora cada cuatro o cinco años informes sobre cambio climático. Los españoles son los científicos y catedráticos en ecología María José Sanz, José Manuel Moreno, Marta Rivera-Ferré, Javier Arístegui e Iñigo Losada.
August 18, 2017
María José Sanz, la directora científica del Centro Vasco de Cambio Climático (BC3), será una de los cinco científicos españoles seleccionados por la ONU para elaborar dos informes especiales sobre los impactos del calentamiento en el suelo y los océanos.El panel intergubernamental de expertos en cambio climático (IPCC, por sus siglas en inglés) de Naciones Unidas, máximo órgano científico en la materia, ha decidido contar con estos cinco científicos, según anunció ayer en su página web.
August 16, 2017
We examine the emergence of land markets and their effects on forest land appropriation by farm households in Jambi Province, Sumatra, using micro-level data covering land use and land transactions for a period of more than 20 years (1992–2015).
August 15, 2017
BC3´s research project “Nurturing a Shift towards Equitable Valuation of Nature in the Anthropocene (EQUIVAL), one of the 5 winner of PEGASuS, Biodiversity & Natural Assets grant programme
The five projects awarded funding in the first round of the Program for Early-stage Grants Advancing Sustainability Science (PEGASuS) focus on questions critical to human wellbeing – from sustainable farming to the loss of mountain biodiversity.
August 14, 2017
The special issue would be relevant for a wide readership and especially for people engaged in various disciplines such as sustainability science, environmental ethics, environmental psychology, environmental sociology, ecological economics, anthropology, and associated fields. Potential authors are welcome to check two recent publications on this topic where relational values are introduced (Chan et al., 2016) and connected to current science-policy approaches regarding environmental values
August 13, 2017
Oil producers are going through a hard period. They have a number of real options at their disposal. This paper addresses the valuation of two of them: the option to delay investment and the option to abandon a producing field.