The economic impact of global climate change on Mediterranean rangeland ecosystems: A Space-for-Time approach

Aliza Fleischer; Marcelo Sternberg

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2005.10.016

The economic impact of global climate change on Mediterranean rangeland ecosystems: A Space-for-Time approach

Aliza Fleischer^*
, Marcelo Sternberg

^*Corresponding author for this work

Department of Environmental Economics and Management

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Abstract

Global Climate Change (GCC) can bring about changes in ecosystems and consequently in their services value. Here we show that the urban population in Israel values the green landscape of rangelands in the mesic Mediterranean climate region and is willing to pay for preserving it in light of the expected increasing aridity conditions in this region. Their valuation of the landscape is higher than that of the grazing services these rangelands provide for livestock growers. These results stem from a Time-for-Space approach with which we were able to measure changes in biomass production and rainfall at four experimental sites along an aridity gradient.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	287-295
Number of pages	9
Journal	Ecological Economics
Volume	59
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2005.10.016
State	Published - 20 Sep 2006

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Funding Information:
This research is funded in the framework of the project GLOWA Jordan River by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in collaboration with the Israeli Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST).

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SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
SDG 13 Climate Action

Keywords

Biomass
Choice modeling
Ecosystem
Global climate change
Landscape

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