Human Health and Ecological Integrity Ethics: Law and Human Rights

0377881 - ÚVGZ 2013 RIV US eng M - Monography Chapter
Seják, J. - Cudlín, Pavel - Pokorný, J.
Valuation of ecosystem services as an instrument for implementation of the European landscape convention.
Human Health and Ecological Integrity Ethics: Law and Human Rights. New York: Routledge, 2012 - (Westra, L.; Soskolne, C.; Spady, D.), s. 69-83. ISBN 978-0-415-50427-0
Institutional support: RVO:67179843
Keywords : Ecosystem services * Ecosystem functions * European Landscape Convention
Subject RIV: EH - Ecology, Behaviour

The European Landscape Convention (ELC) promotes all dimensions of European landscape ecology and increases awareness of its multiple values. Based on the utilitarian demand-side, WTP methods, Costanza et al. (1997) estimated the world’s annual ecosystem services as 1.8-fold greater than the annual world GDP. The dominant welfare economic paradigm must be reformed, as the profit motive and accumulation of material wealth is not compatible with a sustainable future.
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