What is the Development Capacity for Provision of Ecosystem Services in the Czech Republic?

Pechanec, Vilém; Kilianová, Helena; Tangwa, Elwis; Vondráková, Alena; Machar, Ivo

doi:10.3390/su11164273

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“…This is likely to be most effective in production sectors that have a high energy intensity and already have exhausted many options for easy energy intensity improvements. In those sectors related to land-use change, such as agriculture or forestry, another important objective for the post-growth economy would be to restore the capacity of the land to provide important ecosystem services [66].…”

Section: Potential Energy Savings From Structural Changementioning

confidence: 99%

Structural Change for a Post-Growth Economy: Investigating the Relationship between Embodied Energy Intensity and Labour Productivity

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Post-growth economists propose structural changes towards labour-intensive services, such as care or education, to make our economy more sustainable by providing meaningful work and reducing the environmentally damaging production of material goods. Our study investigates the assumption underlying such proposals. Using a multi-regional input-output model we compare the embodied energy intensity and embodied labour productivity across economic sectors in the UK and Germany between 1995 and 2011. We identify five labour-intensive service sectors, which combine low embodied energy intensity with low growth in embodied labour productivity. However, despite their lower embodied energy intensities, our results indicate that large structural changes towards these sectors would only lead to small reductions in energy footprints. Our results also suggest that labour-intensive service sectors in the UK have been characterised by higher rates of price inflation than other sectors. This supports suggestions from the literature that labour-intensive services face challenges from increasing relative prices and costs. We do not find similar results for Germany, which is the result of low overall growth in embodied labour productivity and prices. This highlights that structural change is closely associated with economic growth, which raises the question of how structural changes can be achieved in a non-growing economy.

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Section: Potential Energy Savings From Structural Changementioning

confidence: 99%

Structural Change for a Post-Growth Economy: Investigating the Relationship between Embodied Energy Intensity and Labour Productivity

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“…At the highest level, the area of interest was the entire country (the Czech Republic). A description of the natural conditions in the country was given by Pechanec et al [91]. The Dřevnice catchment area is located in the southeastern part of the Czech Republic (Figure 2), and the Všemina catchment area is located in the northwestern part of the Dřevnice River basin.…”

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Selected Aspects of Carbon Stock Assessment in Aboveground Biomass

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Štěrbová

Purkyt

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Given the significance of national carbon inventories, the importance of large-scale estimates of carbon stocks is increasing. Accurate biomass estimates are essential for tracking changes in the carbon stock through repeated assessment of carbon stock, widely used for both vegetation and soil, to estimate carbon sequestration. Objectives: The aim of our study was to determine the variability of several aspects of the carbon stock value when the input matrix was (1) expressed either as a vector or as a raster; (2) expressed as in local (1:10,000) or regional (1:100,000) scale data; and (3) rasterized with different pixel sizes of 1, 10, 100, and 1000 m. Method: The look-up table method, where expert carbon content values are attached to the mapped landscape matrix. Results: Different formats of input matrix did not show fundamental differences with exceptions of the biggest raster of size 1000 m for the local level. At the regional level, no differences were notable. Conclusions: The results contribute to the specification of best practices for the evaluation of carbon storage as a mitigation measure, as well as the implementation of national carbon inventories.

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“…Several studies on the evolution of land use and the ability of landscapes to provide selected ecosystem services (ESs) have found that the assessed areas have the greatest capacity to provide ecological integrity, which decreases slightly due to category changes. In addition, it has been verified that ecological integrity and regulation services have similar development characteristics [2]. Researchers have applied the concept of project evaluation system (PES) to the monetary valuation of natural forest habitats and created the Natura 2000 European network.…”

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An Empirical Analysis of an Integrated Accounting Method to Assess the Non-Monetary and Monetary Value of Ecosystem Services

Liu

Yan

2020

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The process of ecosystem service value evaluation has developed from the use of a single economic value that only accounts for material products to an assessment of ecological value and the value of ecosystem services. However, due to the complexity of ecosystems and different understandings of ecosystem service values, different classification methods of ecosystem services and service values have been developed internationally, and this has resulted in a lack of clarity regarding the correlation between ecosystem service value and various ecosystems. The correspondence between the system and each value type is not clear; therefore, based on an analysis of the inadequacy of domestic and foreign ecosystem service classification systems and methods, this study constructed a new accounting framework for non-monetary ecosystem service functions based on emergy analysis and integrated monetary accounting methods. The practical application of the method was also researched. The research results re-classified the value of ecosystem services, established an accounting method for various ecosystem service values, clarified the principle of addition in accounting, and avoided double counting. In the empirical analysis, a large number of correlation coefficients, parameters, and index values found in the foreign literature were used, so, our method also has value for international use.

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What is the Development Capacity for Provision of Ecosystem Services in the Czech Republic?

Cited by 6 publications

References 58 publications

Structural Change for a Post-Growth Economy: Investigating the Relationship between Embodied Energy Intensity and Labour Productivity

Structural Change for a Post-Growth Economy: Investigating the Relationship between Embodied Energy Intensity and Labour Productivity

Selected Aspects of Carbon Stock Assessment in Aboveground Biomass

An Empirical Analysis of an Integrated Accounting Method to Assess the Non-Monetary and Monetary Value of Ecosystem Services

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