Practitioners in the fields of sustainable development, land management, and biodiversity conservation are increasingly … presents a practice-oriented framework for identifying the "ecosystem service opportunities" to conserve biodiversity and …

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 …

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 …

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 …

biodiversity-enhancing land-use measures being carried out regularly, yet due to uncertain political commitment the periodical …

increases. -- Ecological fiscal transfers ; intergovernmental fiscal transfer ; biodiversity conservation ; protected areas …