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| BAY, EWING, KONSCHNIK, PHILLIPS JOIN STAFF |
| Duke University's Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions welcomed four new faces in December and January. Learn about how our staff and others at Duke will be partnering with Norman Bay on research projects that focus on the evolution of electric utilities; Jackson Ewing to further environmental research and engagement with Duke Kunshan University; Kate Konschnik on climate change, the Clean Air Act and law and energy policy research; and Jonathan Phillips to increase access to modern energy solutions for underserved populations around the world. |
STUDY ON USING BENEFIT-RELEVANT INDICATORS
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| Despite consensus that including ecosystem services in decision making has merit, guidance on which services to measure and how to measure them is lacking. The Nicholas Institute's Lydia Olander and co-authors propose use of benefit-relevant indicators (BRIs), which explicitly reflect an ecosystem's capacity to provide benefits to society, thereby ensuring that ecosystem services assessments measure outcomes demonstrably and directly relevant to human welfare. In the journal Ecological Indicators, they describe a process for developing BRIs and using causal chains that link management decisions through ecological responses to effects on human well-being. |
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