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Global voluntary agreements, such as the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), have emerged as alternatives to apparent State failure to enforce law. This research questions how effective RSPO is in attaining its claimed conservation goals especially regarding orangutans, as this is central...
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The impacts on biodiversity and ecosystems are among the key reasons for concern about climate change. Integrated … review several recent studies of the impacts of climate change on biodiversity and show that the biodiversity value function … in the FUND integrated assessment model is insensitive to predicted biodiversity loss, instead depending almost entirely …
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Biodiversity is a highly complex and abstract ecological concept. Even though it is not one physical entity, it … economic valuation of biodiversity, it remains to be a particularly challenging ‘valuation object’. Valuation practitioners … therefore have to use proxies for biodiversity, many of which are very simple (single species, habitats). This paper presents a …
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A key prerequisite to ensure that payment for ecosystem services is effective is that the management measures landowners are paid to undertake are in fact additional to the status quo and hence bring about a change in provision.
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Payments for environmental services (PES) are widely adopted to support the conservation of biodiversity and other …
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The aim of this paper is to compare different environmental policies for cost-effective habitat conservation on agricultural lands, when the desired spatial pattern of reserves is a random mosaic. We use a spatially explicit mathematical programming model which studies the farmers' behavior as...
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experiment designed to estimate the non-market values for a proposed biodiversity enhancement programme in New Zealand's planted … planted forests, influenced willingness to pay for biodiversity enhancement. …
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with the purpose to provide: groundwater protection, biodiversity conservation or recreation. We employ a random parameter …
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An integrated economic/ecological model is built to address tradeoffs between biodiversity conservation and two … model defines a steady-state set of sustainable grazing and hunting options, and for each option, biodiversity is measured … to their sustainable use and subject to a target level of biodiversity. A numerical application with economic and …
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-economic model applied to France, we compare different optimal public strategies. We show that, when the biodiversity objectives are …
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