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List of works by Alan Stephen Polasky

A Global System for Monitoring Ecosystem Service Change

scholarly article by Heather Tallis et al published November 2012 in BioScience

A comparison of alternative strategies for cost-effective water quality management in lakes

scientific article published on 01 September 2006

A comparison of reserve selection algorithms using data on terrestrial vertebrates in Oregon

scholarly article by Blair Csuti et al published April 1997 in Biological Conservation

A sustainability framework for assessing trade-offs in ecosystem services

scholarly article by Jeannine Cavender-Bares et al published 2015 in Ecology and Society

Agricultural sustainability and intensive production practices

scientific article (publication date: 8 August 2002)

An attainable global vision for conservation and human well-being

scientific article published in 2018

An index to assess the health and benefits of the global ocean

scientific article published in August 2012

Are Investments to Promote Biodiversity Conservation and Ecosystem Services Aligned?

scholarly article published 23 January 2014

Assessing nature's contributions to people

scientific article published in January 2018

Benefits, costs, and livelihood implications of a regional payment for ecosystem service program

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Bigger is better: Improved nature conservation and economic returns from landscape-level mitigation

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Biodiversity conservation as a promising frontier for behavioural science

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CONSERVING SPECIES IN A WORKING LANDSCAPE: LAND USE WITH BIOLOGICAL AND ECONOMIC OBJECTIVES

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Catching the right wave: evaluating wave energy resources and potential compatibility with existing marine and coastal uses

scientific article (publication date: 2012)

Climate change and health costs of air emissions from biofuels and gasoline

scientific article (publication date: 10 February 2009)

Climate consequences of low-carbon fuels: The United States Renewable Fuel Standard

scholarly article by Jason Hill et al published October 2016 in Energy Policy

Climate engineering reconsidered

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Coastal ecosystem-based management with nonlinear ecological functions and values

scientific article published in January 2008

Commercial Plant Production and Consumption Still Follow the Latitudinal Gradient in Species Diversity despite Economic Globalization

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Conservation needs to integrate knowledge across scales

scientific article published in 2021

Corridors of Clarity: Four Principles to Overcome Uncertainty Paralysis in the Anthropocene

scientific article published on 28 October 2020

Cost-effective Land Use Planning: Optimizing Land Use and Land Management Patterns to Maximize Social Benefits

scientific article published in 2017

Decision-making under great uncertainty: environmental management in an era of global change

scientific article published on 26 May 2011

Does aquaculture add resilience to the global food system?

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Ecology. Millennium ecosystem assessment: research needs

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Economics: Conservation in the red.

scientific article published in December 2012

Ecosystem service information to benefit sustainability standards for commodity supply chains

scientific article published on October 2015

Ecosystem service trade-offs across global contexts and scales

scholarly article by Jeannine Cavender-Bares et al published 2015 in Ecology and Society

Ecosystem services as a common language for coastal ecosystem-based management

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Ecosystem services in decision making: time to deliver

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Efficiency of incentives to jointly increase carbon sequestration and species conservation on a landscape.

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Entrepreneurs, Chance, and the Deterministic Concentration of Wealth

scientific article published on July 21, 2011

Environmental, economic, and energetic costs and benefits of biodiesel and ethanol biofuels

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Evaluating the return in ecosystem services from investment in public land acquisitions

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Evidence-Based Causal Chains for Linking Health, Development, and Conservation Actions.

scientific article published on 21 February 2018

Expanding the Soy Moratorium to Brazil's Cerrado

scientific article published on 17 July 2019

Five financial incentives to revive the Gulf of Mexico dead zone and Mississippi basin soils

scientific article published on 14 December 2018

Focus on global–local–global analysis of sustainability

scientific article published in 2023

Future threats to biodiversity and pathways to their prevention

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General Resilience to Cope with Extreme Events

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Getting the measure of ecosystem services: a social–ecological approach

scholarly article by Belinda Reyers et al published June 2013 in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Global agriculture and carbon trade-offs

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Global modeling of nature’s contributions to people

scientific article published on 01 October 2019

Global trends in nature's contributions to people

scientific article published on 07 December 2020

Grassland biodiversity can pay.

scientific article published on 26 March 2018

How to sell ecosystem services: a guide for designing new markets

scholarly article by Simanti Banerjee et al published 8 August 2013 in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Impacts of conservation and human development policy across stakeholders and scales

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Implementing the optimal provision of ecosystem services

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Improvements in ecosystem services from investments in natural capital

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Inequity in consumption of goods and services adds to racial–ethnic disparities in air pollution exposure

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Integrating economic costs into conservation planning

scientific article published on 16 October 2006

Integrating ecosystem-service tradeoffs into land-use decisions

scientific article published on April 23, 2012

Investing in nature can improve equity and economic returns

scientific article published in 2023

Investments' role in ecosystem degradation-Response

scientific article published on 01 April 2020

Is fertilization efficiency misleading?

scientific article published in Nature

Land Clearing and the Biofuel Carbon Debt

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Life cycle assessment needs predictive spatial modelling for biodiversity and ecosystem services

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Linking water quality and well-being for improved assessment and valuation of ecosystem services

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Low biodiversity state persists two decades after cessation of nutrient enrichment

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Making more effective use of human behavioural science in conservation interventions

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Managed Relocation: Integrating the Scientific, Regulatory, and Ethical Challenges

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Mapping and valuing ecosystem services as an approach for conservation and natural-resource management

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Mapping the planet’s critical natural assets

Maximising return on conservation investment in the conterminous USA.

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Modeling benefits from nature: using ecosystem services to inform coastal and marine spatial planning

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Modeling multiple ecosystem services, biodiversity conservation, commodity production, and tradeoffs at landscape scales

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Multidimensional evaluation of managed relocation

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National indicators for observing ecosystem service change

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Natural capital and ecosystem services informing decisions: From promise to practice

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Natural climate solutions.

scientific article published on 16 October 2017

Nature-based tourism and recreation

scholarly article published 7 April 2011

Non-linearity in ecosystem services: temporal and spatial variability in coastal protection

scholarly article by Evamaria W Koch et al published February 2009 in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Nudging pro-environmental behavior: evidence and opportunities

article published in 2018

Nutrient enrichment, biodiversity loss, and consequent declines in ecosystem productivity

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Optimal control of an invasive species with imperfect information about the level of infestation

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Optimal detection and control strategies for invasive species management

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Optimizing land use decision-making to sustain Brazilian agricultural profits, biodiversity and ecosystem services

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Pervasive human-driven decline of life on Earth points to the need for transformative change

scientific article published on 01 December 2019

Policy design for the Anthropocene

article by Thomas Sterner et al published January 2019 in Nature Sustainability

Predicting overfishing and extinction threats in multispecies fisheries

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Program on ecosystem change and society: an international research strategy for integrated social–ecological systems

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Projected land-use change impacts on ecosystem services in the United States.

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Projecting global land-use change and its effect on ecosystem service provision and biodiversity with simple models

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Protecting local water quality has global benefits

scientific article published on 11 May 2021

Provisioning and regulatory ecosystem service values in agriculture

scholarly article published 7 April 2011

Quantifying flood mitigation services: The economic value of Otter Creek wetlands and floodplains to Middlebury, VT

scientific article published in 2016

Range contraction enables harvesting to extinction

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Reconciling corruption with conservation triage: Should investments shift from the last best places?

scientific article published on 31 August 2018

Reconnecting to the biosphere

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Recreational demand for clean water: evidence from geotagged photographs by visitors to lakes

scientific article published in March 2015

Reducing human nitrogen use for food production

scientific article published on 22 July 2016

Regime shifts and management

scientific article published in 2012

Reply to Bridgewater and Babin: Need for a new protected area category for ecosystem services.

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Reply to Phelps et al: Liability rules provide incentives to protect natural capital

scientific article published on 18 September 2015

Reply to Yang et al.: Coastal wetlands are not well represented by protected areas for endangered birds.

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Response to Hockley: The merit of economic and biological measures in conservation planning

scientific article published in 2007

Responses to alternative rainfall regimes and antipoaching in a migratory system

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Role of economics in analyzing the environment and sustainable development

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Setting the bar: Standards for ecosystem services

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So you want your research to be relevant? Building the bridge between ecosystem services research and practice

scientific article published in August 2017

Social dimensions of fertility behavior and consumption patterns in the Anthropocene

scientific article published on 12 March 2020

Social norms as solutions

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Solve the biodiversity crisis with funding

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Spatially-Correlated Risk in Nature Reserve Site Selection

scientific article published on 20 January 2016

Strengthening protected areas for biodiversity and ecosystem services in China

scientific article published on 30 January 2017

Sustainability for the nation: resource connections and governance linkages

scientific article published on 9 June 2014

Terrestrial biodiversity

The Impact of Land-Use Change on Ecosystem Services, Biodiversity and Returns to Landowners: A Case Study in the State of Minnesota

scholarly article by Alan Stephen Polasky et al published 17 November 2010 in Environmental and Resource Economics

The biodiversity-dependent ecosystem service debt

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The economics of biodiversity and ecosystem services

scholarly article published 30 July 2009

The efficiency of voluntary incentive policies for preventing biodiversity loss

The provisioning value of timber and non-timber forest products

article published in 2011

The social costs of nitrogen

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The valuation of ecosystem services

scholarly article published 30 July 2009

Towards ecosystem accounts for Rwanda: Tracking 25 years of change in flows and potential supply of ecosystem services

scholarly article by Kenneth J. Bagstad et al published March 2020 in People and Nature

Towards integrated social–ecological sustainability indicators: Exploring the contribution and gaps in existing global data

scientific article published in 2015

Trade-offs in ecosystem services and varying stakeholder preferences: evaluating conflicts, obstacles, and opportunities

scholarly article by Elizabeth King et al published 2015 in Ecology and Society

U.S. Urban Water Prices: Cheaper When Drier

scientific article published in September 2018

Uncertainty in ecosystem services valuation and implications for assessing land use tradeoffs: An agricultural case study in the Minnesota River Basin

scholarly article by Kris A. Johnson et al published July 2012 in Ecological Economics

Using gross ecosystem product (GEP) to value nature in decision making

scientific article published on 08 June 2020

Using return on investment to maximize conservation effectiveness in Argentine grasslands

scientific article published on November 22, 2010

Valuing ecological systems and services.

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Voting on open space: What explains the appearance and support of municipal-level open space conservation referenda in the United States?

scientific article published in 2007

What if solar energy becomes really cheap? A thought experiment on environmental problem shifting

Where to put things? Spatial land management to sustain biodiversity and economic returns

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Why conservation planning needs socioeconomic data

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You can't always get what you want: conservation planning with feedback effects

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