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  • 15:58, 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)
  • 15:58, 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)
  • 15:58, 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)
  • 15:58, 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)
  • 15:58, 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)
  • 15:58, 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)
  • 15:58, 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)
  • 15:58, 22 May 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+263). . N Anthropocene(Created page with "== Definition == '''Anthropocene'''. The proposed name for the current geological age in which human activity has become the dominant influence on the biosphere <ref>Crutzen a...")
  • 15:58, 22 May 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+237). . N Agent(Created page with "== Definition == '''Agent'''. A person, company, or organisation that has an influence on the economy by producing, buying, or selling <ref>Cambridge Dictionary, 2020</ref>....")
  • 15:58, 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)
  • 15:58, 22 May 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+113). . N Nature(Created page with "== Definition == '''Nature'''. The natural world. == References == <references/> Category:Biodiversity Risk") (current)
  • 15:58, 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)
  • 15:58, 22 May 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+240). . N Gross National Product(Created page with "== Definition == '''Gross National Product''' (GNP). GDP plus incomes earned by residents from overseas earnings, minus incomes earned within the economy by overseas residents...")
  • 15:58, 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)
  • 15:58, 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)
  • 15:58, 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)
  • 15:58, 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)
  • 15:58, 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)
  • 15:58, 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)
  • 15:58, 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)
  • 15:58, 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)
  • 15:58, 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)
  • 15:58, 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)
  • 15:58, 22 May 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+280). . N Replacement Fertility Rate(Created page with "== Definition == '''Replacement Fertility Rate'''. The total fertility rate at which a region's population would remain constant in the long run. As a rule of thumb, the repla...")
  • 15:58, 22 May 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+299). . N Ecological Tipping Point(Created page with "== Definition == '''Ecological Tipping Point'''. A set of conditions of an ecological system where further perturbation will cause change to a new state and prevent the system...")
  • 15:58, 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)
  • 15:58, 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)
  • 15:58, 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)
  • 15:58, 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)
  • 15:58, 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)
  • 15:58, 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)
  • 15:58, 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)
  • 15:58, 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)
  • 15:58, 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)
  • 15:58, 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)
  • 15:58, 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)
  • 15:58, 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)
  • 15:58, 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)
  • 15:58, 22 May 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+525). . N Total Factor Productivity(Created page with "== Definition == '''Total Factor Productivity''' (TFP). A measure of productivity calculated by dividing economy-wide total production by the weighted average of capital input...")
  • 15:58, 22 May 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+304). . N Externality(Created page with "== Definition == '''Externality'''. A positive or negative consequence (benefits or costs) of an action that affects someone other than the agent undertaking that action and f...")
  • 15:58, 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)
  • 15:58, 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)
  • 15:58, 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)
  • 15:58, 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)
  • 15:58, 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)
  • 15:58, 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)
  • 15:58, 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)
  • 15:58, 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)
  • 15:58, 22 May 2021 (diff | hist) . . (+181). . N Factors of Production(Created page with "== Definition == '''Factors of Production'''. The inputs needed for the creation of a final good or service (output). == References == <references/> Category:Biodiversity...")
  • 15:58, 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)

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