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22 May 2021
- 15:5815:58, 22 May 2021 diff hist +362 N Accounting Price Created page with "== Definition == '''Accounting Price'''. The contribution that an additional unit of a good, service or asset makes to intergenerational well-being, other things equal. In sim..." current
- 15:5815:58, 22 May 2021 diff hist +366 N Economic Evaluation Created page with "== Definition == '''Economic Evaluation'''. Two processes required for managing a society's portfolio of assets: * assessing whether economies achieve 'progress' over time (su..." current
- 15:5815:58, 22 May 2021 diff hist +180 N Human Capital Created page with "== Definition == '''Human Capital'''. This refers to the productive wealth embodied in labour, skills and knowledge. == References == <references/> Category:Biodiversity R..." current
- 15:5815:58, 22 May 2021 diff hist +507 N Stability Regime Created page with "== Definition == '''Stability Regime'''. A stable state, in terms of a set of unique biotic and abiotic conditions, in which an ecosystem can exist. Ecosystems can exist under..." current
- 15:5815:58, 22 May 2021 diff hist +228 N Abiotic Created page with "== Definition == '''Abiotic'''. Having to do with the chemical, geological, and physical aspects of an entity i.e. the non-living components <ref>Levin, 2009</ref>. == Refere..." current
- 15:5815:58, 22 May 2021 diff hist +188 N Net Domestic Product Created page with "== Definition == '''Net Domestic Product''' (NDP). Gross Domestic Product (GDP) less the depreciation of all capital assets. == References == <references/> Category:Biodiv..." current
- 15:5815:58, 22 May 2021 diff hist +176 N Own Rate of Return Created page with "== Definition == '''Own Rate of Return'''. An asset's own rate of return is its marginal yield per unit of time. == References == <references/> Category:Biodiversity Risk" current
- 15:5815:58, 22 May 2021 diff hist +373 N Arbitrage Conditions Created page with "== Definition == '''Arbitrage Conditions'''. Rules governing portfolio selection are summarised in arbitrage conditions. A portfolio is the best for the agent only if the asse..." current
- 15:5815:58, 22 May 2021 diff hist +250 N Provisioning Services Created page with "== Definition == '''Provisioning Services'''. The vast range of goods we obtain from ecosystems e.g. food, freshwater, fuel, fibre, medicines, genetic resources and ornamental..." current
- 15:5815:58, 22 May 2021 diff hist +209 N Primary Producer Created page with "== Definition == '''Primary Producer'''. An organism capable of converting atmospheric carbon dioxide into organic matter <ref>Levin, 2009</ref>. == References == <references..." current
- 15:5815:58, 22 May 2021 diff hist +318 N Trophic Level Created page with "== Definition == '''Trophic Level'''. The position of a given species in the chain of energy or nutrients. In a three-level chain, the top level is taken by predators, the sec..." current
- 15:5815:58, 22 May 2021 diff hist +236 N Economic Model Created page with "== Definition == '''Economic Model'''. A theoretical construct representing economic processes by a set of variables and a set of logical and/or quantitative relationships. =..." current
- 15:5815:58, 22 May 2021 diff hist +173 N Well Being Created page with "== Definition == '''Well Being'''. A measure of the extent to which a person's informed desires are realised. == References == <references/> Category:Biodiversity Risk" current
- 15:5815:58, 22 May 2021 diff hist +218 N Total Fertility Rate Created page with "== Definition == '''Total Fertility Rate''' (TFR). A region's TFR is the average number of births per woman over her reproductive years taken to be 15-49. == References == <r..." current
- 15:5815:58, 22 May 2021 diff hist +480 N Institutional Failure Created page with "== Definition == '''Institutional Failure'''. Failures attributed to institutional design. These include * law and policy failures (e.g. perverse subsidies),..." current
- 15:5815:58, 22 May 2021 diff hist +401 N Natural Capital Created page with "== Definition == '''Natural Capital'''. The stock of renewable and non-renewable natural assets (e.g. ecosystems) that yield a flow of benefits to people (i.e. ecosystem servi..." current
- 15:5815:58, 22 May 2021 diff hist +113 N Nature Created page with "== Definition == '''Nature'''. The natural world. == References == <references/> Category:Biodiversity Risk" current
- 15:5815:58, 22 May 2021 diff hist +313 N Public Goods Created page with "== Definition == '''Public Goods'''. Goods or services that are neither rivalrous (access to a public good by any one group of people has no effect on the quantity available t..." current
- 15:5815:58, 22 May 2021 diff hist +236 N Social Capital Created page with "== Definition == '''Social Capital'''. Mutual trust and associated norms of reciprocity that enable people to engage with one another <ref>Helliwell and Putnam, 2004</ref>. =..." current
- 15:5815:58, 22 May 2021 diff hist +202 N Conservation Created page with "== Definition == '''Conservation'''. An action taken to promote the persistence of ecosystems and Biodiversity <ref>Levin, 2009</ref>. == References == <references/> C..." current
- 15:5815:58, 22 May 2021 diff hist +382 N Sustainable Development Created page with "== Definition == '''Sustainable Development'''. Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs..." current
- 15:5815:58, 22 May 2021 diff hist +323 N Utilitarianism Created page with "== Definition == '''Utilitarianism'''. The doctrine that an action is right in so far as it promotes happiness or well-being, and that the greatest well-being of the greatest..." current
- 15:5815:58, 22 May 2021 diff hist +297 N Unmet Need for Family Planning Services Created page with "== Definition == '''Unmet Need for Family Planning Services'''. Number of women in a region aged 15 to 49 who are seeking to stop or delay childbearing but are not using moder..." current
- 15:5815:58, 22 May 2021 diff hist +245 N Present Discounted Value Created page with "== Definition == '''Present Discounted Value'''. The discounted flow of the future net value of an action or good, service or asset. Also referred to as Net Present Value..." current
- 15:5815:58, 22 May 2021 diff hist +316 N Ecological Hysteresis Created page with "== Definition == '''Ecological Hysteresis'''. When the return trajectory from one stable ecological state to another is different from the outgoing trajectory. It may require..." current
- 15:5815:58, 22 May 2021 diff hist +263 N Natural Assets Created page with "== Definition == '''Natural Assets'''. Naturally occurring living and non-living entities that together comprise ecosystems and deliver ecosystem services that benefit current..." current
- 15:5815:58, 22 May 2021 diff hist +341 N Aichi Biodiversity Targets Created page with "== Definition == '''Aichi Biodiversity Targets'''. The 20 targets set by the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) at its tenth meeting, un..." current
- 15:5815:58, 22 May 2021 diff hist +349 N Nature Related Financial Risks Created page with "== Definition == '''Nature Related Financial Risks'''. Financial risks that arise from changes in the stock and/or condition of natural capital and from societal responses to..." current
- 15:5815:58, 22 May 2021 diff hist +246 N Keystone Species Created page with "== Definition == '''Keystone Species'''. A species that has a disproportionately large impact on ecosystem structure and function relative to its own abundance <ref>Levin 2009..." current
- 15:5815:58, 22 May 2021 diff hist +377 N Enabling Assets Created page with "== Definition == '''Enabling Assets'''. Assets that confer value to other capital goods by facilitating their use. They are not included in the Review's three-way classificati..." current
- 15:5815:58, 22 May 2021 diff hist +278 N Numeraire Created page with "== Definition == '''Numeraire'''. A unit of account in terms of which the relative price of other traded goods, services or assets is expressed. The price of the good chosen a..." current
- 15:5815:58, 22 May 2021 diff hist +322 N Nash Equilibrium Created page with "== Definition == '''Nash Equilibrium'''. A course of actions (strategy, in game theoretic parlance) per party, such that no party would have any reason to deviate from his or..." current
- 15:5815:58, 22 May 2021 diff hist +233 N Functional Diversity Created page with "== Definition == '''Functional Diversity'''. The variety and number of species that fulfil different functional roles in a community or ecosystem <ref>Levin, 2009</ref>. == R..." current
- 15:5815:58, 22 May 2021 diff hist +429 N Impact Inequality Created page with "== Definition == '''Impact Inequality'''. The overshoot in humanity's demands on the biosphere and its supply. That difference has been widening in recent decades. Because dem..." current
- 15:5815:58, 22 May 2021 diff hist +223 N Inclusive Wealth Created page with "== Definition == '''Inclusive Wealth'''. The social value based on accounting prices of an economy's total stock of natural, produced and human capital assets. == References..." current
- 15:5815:58, 22 May 2021 diff hist +314 N Expected Utility Created page with "== Definition == '''Expected Utility'''. The subjective weighted average of all possible outcomes for utility, with the weights being assigned by the likelihood, or probabilit..." current
- 15:5815:58, 22 May 2021 diff hist +245 N Rate of Return Created page with "== Definition == '''Rate of Return'''. The rate of return on an asset as opposed to the asset's own rate of return is its yield plus the capital gains it enjoys over a unit of..." current
- 15:5815:58, 22 May 2021 diff hist +229 N Ecological Assemblage Created page with "== Definition == '''Ecological Assemblage'''. A taxonomically related group of species populations that occur together in space <ref>Shantz and Sweatman, 2015</ref>. == Refer..." current
- 15:5815:58, 22 May 2021 diff hist +370 N Regulating and Maintenance Services Created page with "== Definition == '''Regulating and Maintenance Services'''. All ways in which ecosystems control or modify biotic or abiotic parameters that define the environment of people...." current
- 15:5815:58, 22 May 2021 diff hist +221 N Sustainable Created page with "== Definition == '''Sustainable'''. A situation is sustainable if it can persist indefinitely. An unsustainable state of affairs cannot persist indefinitely. == References ==..." current
- 15:5815:58, 22 May 2021 diff hist +199 N Holocene Created page with "== Definition == '''Holocene'''. The current geological age, which began approximately 11,000 years ago, after the last glacial period. == References == <references/> Cate..." current
- 15:5815:58, 22 May 2021 diff hist +221 N Intergenerational Well Being Created page with "== Definition == '''Intergenerational Well Being'''. The (possibly discounted) sum of the well-being of all who are here today and all who will ever be born. == References ==..." current
- 15:5815:58, 22 May 2021 diff hist +216 N Prokaryotes Created page with "== Definition == '''Prokaryotes'''. A cellular organism that lacks a nucleus. It includes the two domains of Bacteria and Archaea <ref>Cole, 2016</ref>. == References == <ref..." current
- 15:5815:58, 22 May 2021 diff hist +477 N Institution Created page with "== Definition == '''Institution'''. An established law, custom, usage, practice, organisation, or other element in the political or social life of a people <ref>Oxford English..." current
- 15:5815:58, 22 May 2021 diff hist +267 N Eukaryote Created page with "== Definition == '''Eukaryote'''. An organism that consists of one or more cells each of which has a nucleus and other specialised organelles. It includes animals, plants and..." current
- 15:5815:58, 22 May 2021 diff hist +264 N Marginal Product Created page with "== Definition == '''Marginal Product'''. The change in output as a result of one more unit of a particular input. Market price'''. The price at which a good, service or asset..." current
- 15:5815:58, 22 May 2021 diff hist +257 N Non Linearity Created page with "== Definition == '''Non Linearity'''. In a non-linear relationship, when a process is disrupted, the relationship between one variable and another does not increase or decreas..." current
- 15:5815:58, 22 May 2021 diff hist +320 N Socially Embedded Preferences Created page with "== Definition == '''Socially Embedded Preferences'''. Human preferences which are significantly influenced by the choices of others e.g. peers, community, family. This can inc..." current
- 15:5815:58, 22 May 2021 diff hist +287 N Cultural Services Created page with "== Definition == '''Cultural Services'''. All the non-material, and normally non-rival and non-consumptive, outputs of ecosystems (biotic and abiotic) that affect physical and..." current
- 15:5815:58, 22 May 2021 diff hist +230 N Open Access Resources Created page with "== Definition == '''Open Access Resources'''. Natural assets that are open to use by all free of charge, for example fisheries in waters beyond national jurisdiction. == Refe..." current
