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  • Social Multi-Criteria Evaluation (SMCE)

    Like other evaluation processes, multi-criteria assessment (MCA) needs to deal with different value systems when facing a real problem of social choice. One possible way of dealing with the subjectivity …

  • Precautionary principle

    Human life is full of risks which we have to deal with. Science and technology can help in diminishing some risks of nature, as it is the case, for example, …

  • Payment for Environmental / Ecosystem Services (PES schemes)

    In the past decade, payments for ecosystem service (PES) schemes have represented a growing trend in conservation policy, developing rapidly in both developed and developing countries around the world (Wunder …

  • Metabolism of trade

    Mainstream economic science traditionally measures trade flows in terms of money, i.e. exchange values on the market. To overcome the limits of this concept several approaches within ecological economics have …