Whispering Winds: Can we negotiate

with Nature?

Compensanting and Offsetting impacts on Biodiversity & Ecosystem Services

Nuno Gaspar de Oliveira CIGEST | Environment & Sustainability

ISG - Instituto Superior de Gestão | Business & Economics School

Área de Ambiente e Sustentabilidade

CIGEST - Centro de Investigação em Gestão do ISG/INP desenvolve investigação aplicada, procurando estabelecer uma forte ligação entre a teoria e a prática.

A investigação desenvolvida no CIGEST desde 2011 expressa-se em quatro grandes áreas:

1) Economia e a Gestão2) Ciências da Comunicação3) Ergonomia e Factores Humanos4) Ambiente e Sustentabilidade

Cada uma destas áreas subdivide-se em diferentes grupos, integrando linhas de investigação diferenciadas, entre as quais existem sinergias pontuais para dar resposta a determinados projectos.

Whispering Winds: Can we negotiate with Nature?

Whispering Winds: Can we negotiate with Nature?

Whispering Winds: Can we negotiate with Nature?

Whispering Winds: Can we negotiate with Nature?

http://www.treehugger.com/clean-technology/connecting-the-worlds-wind-farms.html

Whispering Winds: Can we negotiate with Nature?

Serviços Económicos / Função de Produção ‘Humano’

Utilidade / Segurança

Benefício / Oportunidade

ProvisãoRegulação

CulturalBiodiversi

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Bem-Estar [Passado /

Actual / Futuro]

Serviços dos Ecossistemas

Objecto Objectivo Objectividade

Whispering Winds: Can we negotiate with Nature?

"Figure3. The economy as an open subsystem of the ecosystem" diagram from Herman Daly's Beyond Growth book of 1996, page 49. The book says "Since the ecosystem remains constant in scale as the economy grows, it is inevitable that over time the economy becomes larger relative to the containing ecosystem. This transition from an ‘empty world’ to a ‘full world’ is depicted….”

Whispering Winds: Can we negotiate with Nature?

Figure 1. Three hypothetical landscapes illustrating the types and magnitude of services associated with different types of ecosystems. Natural ecosystems can support many ecosystem services at high levels, but not food production. An intensive cropland produces food in abundance, but comparatively little of the other services. A managed cropland can support a broad portfolio of ecosystem services (Foley et al. 2005, with permission).

Whispering Winds: Can we negotiate with Nature?

Whispering Winds: Can we negotiate with Nature?

http://envirocenter.yale.edu/programs/environmental-performance-management/environmental-performance-index/

Whispering Winds: Can we negotiate with Nature?

http://www.aedb.br/seget/artigos08/196_196_196_VALORACAO_ECONOMICA_AMBIENTAL.pdf

Whispering Winds: Can we negotiate with Nature?

https://www.landuse.alberta.ca/Documents/LUF_Experimental_Evaluation_of_Offset_Design_Options_Summary_Report-2011-11.pdf

Whispering Winds: Can we negotiate with Nature?

Whispering Winds: Can we negotiate with Nature?

Whispering Winds: Can we negotiate with Nature?

Nuno Gaspar de OliveiraInvestigador ‘CIGEST | Ambiente e Sustentabilidade ISG Business & Economics Schoolnunogoliveira@cigest.ensinus.pt Telefone: 21 751 37 00 ext. 127 SKYPE: nuno.gaspar.oliveiraLinkedin: ngoliveiraFacebook: CIGEST