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Case Study - Inland Wetlands in India

… on Biological Diversity CITES Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora CLAMFIL … the world, yet it is expected that further increases in trade, transport and tourism will only aggravate the problem. … see that the recreational value is high. There would be trade-offs between recreational values and other provisioning …
18 Jun 2026 Document in Biological Diversity

A2 - Integrating Environmental Concerns in National Water Law

… of water rights Invariably, water laws enabling the trade of water abstraction rights seek to minimize and to … (2013); a generic direction that an abstraction right trade must not harm the environment is found in the Water Act …
18 Jun 2026 Course lesson in Environmental Governance

Depend on nature: Ecosystem services supporting human livelihoods

… services in economic terms and we do not understand the trade-offs that we are making when allowing unbridled … at USD 3.87 billion in 1998 (Brevoort, 1998). The global trade in medicinal plants has already grown to well over USD … amphibians, and 8% of threatened mammals. Hunting/trade activities affected 29% of mammals, and 28% of birds …
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Flow : The essentials of environmental flows

… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 1.5 The Trade-offs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . … determining what outcomes are sought and defining what trade-offs those will entail. A number of considerati- ons … stakeholders start accepting these uncertainties. 1.5 The Trade-offs The provision of environmental flows is not …
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Global Land Outlook

… land management practices. Our ability to manage trade-offs at a landscape scale will ultimately decide the … we plan, use, and manage the land. Our ability to manage trade-offs at a landscape scale will ultimately decide the … The rapid expansion of global value chains and associated trade in land commodities (and their “virtual” components) …
18 Jun 2026 Literature

A Gateway to Payments for Ecosystem Services. Using Payments for Ecosystem Services for Livelihoods and Landscapes

… sustainable development, the growth debate, international trade, dynamic processes, behaviour, and policy. Natural … management of the environment will inevitably involve trade-offs among the different land-use types, each of which … functioning, and ecosystem services. The consideration of trade-offs is central to the valuation of ES. It also …
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Guidelines - Biodiversity in Impact Assessment

… of the Convention on Biological Diversity World Trade Centre 413 St. Jacques, Suite 800 Montreal, Quebec, … biodiversity provides commodities for international trade that may be the subject of study in trade impact assessment (sometimes referred to as …
18 Jun 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

Energy, Ecosystems and livelihoods: Understanding linkages in the face of climate change impacts

… ecosystems. This section explores these inter-linkages and trade-offs. Figure 1: Linkages between Ecosystem Services and … of invasive alien species facilitated through global trade, both made possible through cheap and easily-available … will need to be made with a full understanding of the trade-offs involved in any specific situation. Identifying …
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The valuation of ecosystem services: Are the challenges too many to ensure the maintenance of ecosystem integrity?

… economic interests in particular. It thus requires that a trade-off is made between environmental considerations and … but no clear guidance is given as to how this trade-off should be arrived at. Another example can be found … and other acts.35 Achieving these objectives will require trade-offs to be made between different alternative courses …
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Value : Counting ecosystems as water infrastructure

… expenditures and damage costs avoided, look at the market trade-offs or costs avoided of maintaining ecosystems for … techniques are also sometimes used, such as engaging in trade-off games or using take-it-or-leave it experiments. The … to analyse the impacts of this programme, and the relative trade-offs and benefits of different wetland management …
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