Reduction of the earth’s biodiversity as a result of human activities is a matter of great concern to prominent … scientists. What are the economic aspects of this loss? In economic terms, what is biodiversity and why might it matter? And is … the loss of biodiversity in any way connected with globalization of the economy? …

creating markets for biodiversity. In the paper we conclude that the success of a policy instrument for creating markets for … biodiversity depends on the nature crucial factors, including the ability of the policy instrument to deal with (a) the public good … nature of most of the nonmarket biodiversity benefits; (b) the asymmetric informational characteristics related to the …

Biodiversity can sometimes only be preserved if natural habitats are excluded from human uses. Such protection measures … great parts of global biodiversity. For internalization, financial resources are raised on a multilateral basis and …

Nationally implemented protected area measures for biodiversity conservation generate cross-border externalities. For …

The analysis of gas emissions by an input-output subsystem approach provides detailed insights into pollution …

We estimate the impact of fiscal decentralization on different indicators of pollution for more than 80 countries from … 1970 to 2000. Our cross country estimates show that fiscal decentralization increases pollution. However, higher quality of …