What can deliberative approaches bring to the monetary valuation of ecosystem services? A literature review

Non-monetary techniques for the valuation of ecosystem services

Non-monetary approaches can be applied in various stages of ecosystem planning and management, e.g. in problem framing, mapping, valuation, and decision making. They examine the importance, preferences, needs or demands expressed by people towards nature, and articulate plural values through different qualitative and quantitative measures other than money (Chan et al., 2012). They can grasp the...

from linguistics to literature: a linguistic approach to the study of linguistic deviations in the turkish divan of shahriar

chapter i provides an overview of structural linguistics and touches upon the saussurean dichotomies with the final goal of exploring their relevance to the stylistic studies of literature. to provide evidence for the singificance of the study, chapter ii deals with the controversial issue of linguistics and literature, and presents opposing views which, at the same time, have been central to t...

What Can Web Services Bring To Integrated Management?

Since the turn of the millennium, Web services have pervaded the middleware industry, despite their technical limitations, their ongoing standardization, the resulting lack of stable standards, the different meanings of the term service to different people, and the fact that marketing forces have blurred the technical reality that hides behind this term. What is so special about Web services an...

Valuation of Ecosystem Services

A framework for ecosystem services valuation.

In the recent article, “Managing Invasive Aquatic Plants in a Changing System: Strategic Consideration of Ecosystem Services,” Hershner and Havens (2008) reject the need to manage certain aquatic plant invaders. The authors claim that Phragmites australis invasion is acceptable because it provides three ecosystem services: habitat, soil stabilization, and nutrient uptake and retention. We stron...