Ecolabel award schemes have become increasingly popular. Their rationale is to enable (concerned) consumers to identify "green" products. By so doing, ecolabelling should stimulate environmental innovation, and induce firms to reduce the supply of conventional (polluting) products. Our analysis...

We develop a conceptual framework for valuing bioversity from an economic perspective. We consider bioversity important because of a number of characteristics or services that it provided of enhances. We attribute bioversity loss to economic activities related to decisions of private optimizing...