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Legitimacy analysis of multi-level governance of biodiversity: Evidence from 12 case studies across the EU

Suéskeviécs, Monika - Department Ökonomie, Helmholtz Zentrum für … - 2010

Legitimacy is regarded as one critical aspect of biodiversity management and nature conservation arrangements. Multi … multilevel governance contexts, and to analyse empirically biodiversity governance in different EU countries in the light of … biodiversity governance from different EU countries. The results show that several of the legitimacy challenges in multilevel …

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Spatial differentiation of compensation payments for biodiversity enhancing land-use measures

Wätzold, Frank; Drechsler, Martin - Department Ökonomie, Helmholtz Zentrum für … - 2002

Given that both the costs and the benefits of biodiversity-enhancing land-use measures are subject to spatial variation … with uniform payments for biodiversity-enhancing land-use measures to be assessed. A simple ecologicaleconomic model is …

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Integrated assessment of biological invasions

Rauschmayer, Felix - Department Ökonomie, Helmholtz Zentrum für … - 2003

An assessment of the consequences of biological invasions and of the measures taken against must be at the base of each social decision in this field. Three forms of uncertainty can be distinguished that make such a decision difficult to take: (1) factual uncertainty, which encompasses not only...

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The private and public insurance value of conservative biodiversity management

Baumgärtner, Stefan; Quaas, Martin - Department Ökonomie, Helmholtz Zentrum für … - 2005

The ecological literature suggests that biodiversity reduces the variance of ecosystem services. Thus, conservative … biodiversity management has an insurance value to risk-averse users of ecosystem services. We analyze a conceptual ecological … and external effects of management effort on biodiversity; and (iii) the welfare loss due to free-riding may decrease or …

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Why be wasteful when preserving a valuable resource? A review article on the cost-effectiveness of European biodiversity conservation policy

Wätzold, Frank; Schwerdtner, Kathleen - Department Ökonomie, Helmholtz Zentrum für … - 2004

Issues related to the cost-effectiveness of biodiversity conservation policies have not yet been prominent in European …

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Estimating optimal conservation in agricultural landscapes when costs and benefits of conservation measures are heterogeneous in space and over time

Wätzold, Frank; Lienhoop, Nele; Drechsler, Martin; … - Department Ökonomie, Helmholtz Zentrum für … - 2006

Designing agri-environmental schemes targeted at conservation poses the key question of how many financial resources should be allocated to address a particular aim such as the conservation of an endangered species. Economists can contribute to an answer by estimating the 'optimal level of...

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Differences and similarities between ecological and economic models for biodiversity conservation

Drechsler, Martin; Grimma, Volker; Myšiak, Jaroslav; … - Department Ökonomie, Helmholtz Zentrum für … - 2005

. To understand these differences, 60 models addressing issues relevant to biodiversity conservation have been selected …

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A model-based approach for designing cost-effective compensation payments for conservation of endangered species in real landscapes

Drechsler, Martin; Wätzold, Frank; Johst, Karin; … - Department Ökonomie, Helmholtz Zentrum für … - 2005

An approach is present which integrates an economic and an ecological model for designing cost-effective compensation payments for conservation of endangered species in real landscapes. The approach is used to develop a cost-effective compensation payment scheme for conservation of an endangered...

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Economic incentives for biodiversity conservation: What is the evidence for motivation crowding?

Rode, Julian; Gómez-Baggethun, Erik; Krause, Torsten - Department Ökonomie, Helmholtz Zentrum für … - 2013

As economic incentives for biodiversity and ecosystem service protection (e.g., payments for ecosystem services) have … that economic incentives may undermine people's intrinsic motivations to conserve biodiversity. In this paper we review the … theoretical insights and empirical findings on motivation crowding effects with economic instruments for biodiversity protection …

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