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Risk and Uncertainty as Sources of Economic Value of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

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The future is uncertain. Given our seriously limited clairvoyant abilities, this is a trivial fact, which applies to all domains of human life – including our interactions with ecosystems. In the context of ecosystems and the goods and services they provide to us, this uncertainty about the future has multiple facets.

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This contribution draws upon results of Bartkowski [4].

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  1. Department of Economics, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research–UFZ, Leipzig, Germany

    Bartosz Bartkowski & Bernd Hansjürgens

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  1. Department of Ecosystem Services, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research–UFZ, Leipzig, Germany

    Matthias Schröter

  2. Department of Ecosystem Services, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research–UFZ, Leipzig, Germany

    Aletta Bonn

  3. Department of Community Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research–UFZ, Halle, Germany

    Stefan Klotz

  4. Department of Computational Landscape Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research–UFZ, Leipzig, Germany

    Ralf Seppelt

  5. Department of Community Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research–UFZ, Halle, Germany

    Cornelia Baessler

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Bartkowski, B., Hansjürgens, B. (2019). Risk and Uncertainty as Sources of Economic Value of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. In: Schröter, M., Bonn, A., Klotz, S., Seppelt, R., Baessler, C. (eds) Atlas of Ecosystem Services. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96229-0_5

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