Biodiversity is an important environmental public good. However, the literature suggests that it is not clear how its … biodiversity value from the ecological and economic literatures and combines them to a comprehensive and consistent framework. It … is argued that biodiversity is the main carrier of insurance value, option value and spill-over value, and also …

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

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 …

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 …

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

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 …

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 …

changes in existence. Moreover, when applied to biodiversity, the concept of existence value gives rise to an instance of a … biodiversity cannot have existence value; yet the results of empirical studies suggest that people in stated preference studies can …