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negotiated. In the same year, the Global Environment Facility (GEF) for funding biodiversity conservation in developing countries … oceans (2). The main reasons are chronic underfunding of global biodiversity conservation; the lack of incentives for global … biodiversity loss. Dinerstein et al. recently called for a global deal, complementing the 2015 Paris Climate Change Agreement, for …
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We postulate that the causes of the problem of invasive alien species are primarily economic and as such, require economic solutions. Invasive alien species are of increasing concern for four reasons. First, introductions are increasing sharply, while mechanisms for excluding or eradicating...
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The five papers comprising the symposium on trade, renewable resources and biodiversity are good illustrations of a …
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We model biological invasions as an unintended by-product of capital accumulation. We distinguish three spillover effects: (1) a negative production externality, (2) a negative or positive consumption externality and (3) an increase in the risk of future welfare loss. We also consider the...
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biodiversity loss in Ghana between the period 1965-1995. In the first part of the analysis, a four-equation recursive model … biodiversity loss. The overall results indicate that cocoa land expansion and timber production, but not maize land expansion, are … reduced. The rate of biodiversity loss also reduced in the post-adjustment period. Changes in relative output and input prices …
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Despite the rising concern over the economic costs of biological invasions, no general modeling approach of these costs has been developed. The purpose of this note is to develop such a framework, and to demonstrate how conventional bioeconomic models of interspecific competition, such as the...
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consequences. We analyzed local experiments, long-term regional time series, and global fisheries data to test how biodiversity … biodiversity, in contrast, increased productivity fourfold and decreased variability by 21%, on overage. We conclude that marine … biodiversity loss is increasingly impairing the ocean's capacity to provide food, maintain water quality, and recover from …
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looks at optimal policies of biodiversity conservation. The subject of the paper is natural biodiversity, which is …
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looks at optimal policies of biodiversity conservation. The subject of the paper is 'natural' biodiversity, which is …
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Optimal management of biodiversity at the national level, even if achievable, is not necessarily consistent with a …
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