Faut-il s’inquiéter de l’érosion de la biodiversité ? Que peut-on y faire ? Un ensemble de travaux menés au sein de l’UMR LAMETA présentent la biodiversité comme une notion singulièrement complexe, dont la valeur ne se révèle correctement sur aucun marché. Les estimations...

Bioprospection is, largely, meant to help reducing deforestation and, the other way around, stopping deforestation enhances the prospects of bioprospection. The need for a global agreement to the problem of tropical deforestation has led to the REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and...

In developing countries, biodiversity is often threatened by the development of agricultural production because natural habitats are destroyed by the conversion of forests, wetlands or natural pastures into arable land. There is a trade-o¤ between revenues generated by agricultural production...

The purpose of this paper is to explore whether international income transfers can improve or worsen the global level of biodiversity and global social welfare by changing the relative contributions to biodiversity protection and to agricultural production. Because of the public good nature of...