Economic value of terrestrial and marine biodiversity in the Cape Floristic Region: implications for defining effective and socially optimal conservation strategies

By J. Turpie, B. Heydenrych, S. Lamberth. 2003

225 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Economics and Econometrics, Global and Planetary Change

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In Ecology

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4. Zhenyu Li
5. Laura Uusitalo
6. Weiguo Sang
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In Global and Planetary Change

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5. W. Born
6. I. Bräuer
7. T. Hyde
8. W. D. Lange

Citations in the corpus

• Economic evaluation of biological invasions—a survey (2005, background): “An example is the Cape Floristic Region with its typical fynbos vegetation (Turpie et al., 2003), encompassing all value categories.”
• Predicting the spatial distribution of an invasive plant species (Eupatorium adenophorum) in China (2007, background): “1998; Reichard and White 2003) and its adverse impacts on agricultural and forest productivity (Turpie et al. 2003; Knowler and Barbier 2005).”
• An African account of ecosystem service provision : use, threats and policy options for sustainable livelihoods (2012, background): “Natural resource-based tourism is one of the greatest income generators in the Cape Floristic Region of South Africa, which is renowned for its beauty and floral diversity as well as other nature pursuits such as whale watching and angling, which contribute between 7% and 9% of the province’s gross ”
• An economic assessment of the contribution of biological control to the management of invasive alien plants and to the protection of ecosystem services in South Africa (2010, background): “The unit pricing of biodiversity was based on numerous studies that have attempted to place a monetary value on the ecosystem services derived from biodiversity, including the harvesting of natural products as well as non-use values (Hassan 2003; Higgins et al. 1997; Shackleton and Shackleton 2004; ”
• An evaluation of monetary and non-monetary techniques for assessing the importance of biodiversity and ecosystem services to people in countries with developing economies (2012, background): “Examples include: local trading prices (e.g. Le Roux and Nahman, 2005; Turpie et al., 2003); revenues from tourists to areas of high biodiversity; and the value of bio-prospecting contracts (Nijkamp et al.”
• How to value biodiversity in environmental management (2015, background): “Travel cost Brown and Mendelsohn (1984), Turpie et al. (2003),”