Warning: Undefined array key "DW68700bfd16c2027de7de74a5a8202a6f" in /home/.sites/34/site2020/web/wikialps/lib/plugins/translation/action.php on line 237 Warning: Trying to access array offset on value of type null in /home/.sites/34/site2020/web/wikialps/lib/plugins/translation/action.php on line 237 ===== Hypothesis: Economic valorisation of natural resources and ecosystem services initiates new compensations schemes ===== Improvements in assigning monetary value to ecosystem services / Alpine resources makes aware of economic value and society’s dependency of ecosystem services -> infor-mation can be used by policy-makers to identify market and policy failures, e.g. dysfunctional incentives/subsidies that contribute to environmental degradation -> awareness rais-ing and creating positive incentives, e.g. linking payments to recognizable and valuable services -> spatial development could take advantage of these insights and use them for im-proved balancing between natural resource capacities and society’s demands === Projects that address this Hypothesis === * [[Greenalps]] \\ -> go to the [[wiki:list_of_hypothesis|list of hypotheses]]