palm oil within the GHG context. We discuss the impact of palm oil on biodiversity and analyse how palm oil can contribute … about and politics towards palm oil with special focus on the EU. Palm oil is a low-energy and low-fertilizer crop that … is much less significant than postulated by some recent campaigns. Furthermore, biodiversity in oil palm plantations is …

management practice as well as land use on biodiversity. It is argued that subsidies as AES should promote environmental …-friendly land use which, in turn, should lead to biodiversity conservation. First results show that AES promotes ecological land use … rather than extensive agricultural practice. Furthermore, AES is predominantly allocated in biodiversity rich counties and …

period in which the EU and its Member States are figuring out how to redesign their economies and societies in order to cope …

multilevel governance contexts, and to analyse empirically biodiversity governance in different EU countries in the light of … biodiversity governance from different EU countries. The results show that several of the legitimacy challenges in multilevel …Legitimacy is regarded as one critical aspect of biodiversity management and nature conservation arrangements. Multi …

Issues related to the cost-effectiveness of biodiversity conservation policies have not yet been prominent in European …

Based on studies of the reform of the European Union's (EU's) structural funding programmes, some scholars consider the … EU to be a disordered, complex and multi-layered polity. According to such a perspective, shifting and contested power … relationships in the EU, resulting in the dispersal of decision-making authority among different tiers of governance, have produced …

The ecological literature suggests that biodiversity reduces the variance of ecosystem services. Thus, conservative … biodiversity management has an insurance value to risk-averse users of ecosystem services. We analyze a conceptual ecological … and external effects of management effort on biodiversity; and (iii) the welfare loss due to free-riding may decrease or …