The purpose of this study is to carry out an approximation to the economic value of benefits when preserving strategic ecosystems which guarantee hydric resources for human consumption in five villages of Aburrá Valley (Colombia).

The objective of this paper is to determine the economic benefits ob­tained by households in residential zones in the city of Medellin (Co­lombia) by the reduction of noise and vehicle traffic. For this purpose, a contingence ...

The hipothesis of Kuznets’ Environmenal Curve explores the existingrelationship between the economical growth and the environmental quality, in an attempt to show that on the short run, the economical growth generates a ...

Because of the lack of answers on behalf of the neo-classical economy to the ever increasing environmental problems as a result of the economical activities, a new vision has started to develop: the ecological economy. In ...