of major players within the WTO agriculture-environment sphere. …

"Integration of biodiversity conservation into economic utilization of natural resources has become a central response … for biodiversity conservation. We analyze the scale, scope, and distribution of the resources and competencies that … well as distinct roles for public and private-sector organizations. Beyond identification of differences in conservation …

informed consent. We assessed the perceptions and behavior of rubber agroforest farmers under existing conservation agreements … as a step toward institutionalized reward schemes for agro-biodiversity using questionnaires and roleplaying games (RPG … for environmental services (PES). Results revealed a strong conservation belief system and social norms in the research …

"The central challenge of tropical biodiversity conservation involves reconciling private and social incentives to … ensure biodiversity conservation and an equitable distribution of benefits and costs. There has been little theory or … representing community) who must perform two authoritative tasks related to biodiversity conservation: rule-making and rule …

Economic theory suggests that price incentives can be used to encourage water conservation in residential consumers …. Conservation water rates are designed to send price signals that encourage households to reduce discretionary water use in the long … term.However, it is not always clear that conservation rates effectively provide meaningful incentives. Utilities …

the optimal reserve design and implementation for the Little Bustard conservation in Plaine de Niort. The model structure …

, there is no consensus among either biologists or economists on the most meaningful measures of biodiversity. Fundamentally …