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 …

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 … management effort influence biodiversity; and (iii) the welfare loss due to free-riding may decrease or increase, depending on …

The environmental discussion is increasingly extended to the question of how to preserve biodiversity. As sensible … regulation of biodiversity utilization uses politically set incentive schemes, it is required to discus the monetary value of … biodiversity. Consequently, the relation between economic incentives and biodiversity is in the focus of our paper. By using bird …

looks at optimal policies of biodiversity conservation. The subject of the paper is 'natural' biodiversity, which is …

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 …

Rapidly declining biodiversity has made international and national policies focus on the question of how best to … protect genetic resources. Loss of biodiversity does not only concern wildlife, but equally affects agriculturally used … diversity. This handbook was conceived within the project Sustainable conservation of animal genetic resources in marginal rural …

the position of China in international environmental negotiations, biodiversity in China, financial incentives for the …, Biodiversität in China, finanzielle Anreize zur Förderung erneuerbarer Energien, die Implementierung von Umweltpolitik mit ihren …

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 …

we estimate the optimal conservation level of Large Blue butterflies (protected by the EU Habitats Directive) in the …

Given that both the costs and the benefits of biodiversity-enhancing land-use measures are subject to spatial variation … with uniform payments for biodiversity-enhancing land-use measures to be assessed. A simple ecologicaleconomic model is …