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Managed grasslands contribute in a number of ways to the biodiversity of European agricultural landscapes and provide a … wide range of ecosystem services that are also of socio-economic value. Against the background of a rapid biodiversity loss … schemes for grassland plant biodiversity. Hence the design, implementation and results of the adapted case-study payment …
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within a case study using repeated auctions to reward plant biodiversity. Based on a review of the current literature the …
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The mandatory deposit for one-way drinks packaging, embodied in the German Packaging Ordinance of 1991, entered into force in January 2003, after the condition for its implementation was given by the fall of the market share of reusable drinks packaging under 72% in 1997. In this context the...
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This paper details a methodology for calculating the extent of terrestrial and marine protected areas recorded in the World Database on Protected Areas by country, type and IUCN management categories. The method allows the data on protected areas to be summarised in a harmonised and more...
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counter these in selected OECD countries. More specifically, the paper begins with an overview of the main biodiversity and …
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specific ecological and economical factors that reflect benefits and costs of biodiversity conservation. Main findings are that … site and point out its significance for biodiversity conservation (Conservation Significance Factor), ii) a criterion that …) criteria that estimate the potential biodiversity outcomes induced by specific management actions (Conservation Management …
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We implemented a decision experiment in the field with rural peasants in Colombia to test the effects of introducing then partially or totally removing Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES). We consider individual and collective payments and different rules for removal. We find that there is...
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The pace of biodiversity loss requires drastic shifts in conservation efforts that carry substantial costs. We … initiative launched by the Chinese central government in 2017 to enforce biodiversity preservation rules in national nature … reserves. We document that, while improving local biodiversity, the initiative led to a significant increase in bond yields for …
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The European Union's Council Regulation on support for rural development by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development has introduced auctioning as a new instrument for granting agri-environmental payments and awarding conservation contracts for the recent multi-annual budgetary plan....
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