The “new economics of nature” refers to the recent development that nature and biodiversity protection are increasingly … Ecosystems and Biodiversity” and its follower “Natural Capital Germany – TEEB DE”. This economic perspective is heavily …, economic perspectives can deliver important additional arguments for nature and biodiversity protection. …

Biodiversity is a highly complex and abstract ecological concept. Even though it is not one physical entity, it … economic valuation of biodiversity, it remains to be a particularly challenging ‘valuation object’. Valuation practitioners … therefore have to use proxies for biodiversity, many of which are very simple (single species, habitats). This paper presents a …

prominent example, it enters new fields of application, such as land use policy and biodiversity protection, water quality and …, for example, land use management, biodiversity protection and water trading. Permit Trading in Different Applications …