The conservation of biodiversity is a major environmental issue, one that promises to remain at or near the top of the … role to play in helping to develop and evaluate conservation strategies. Because biodiversity is at risk in large part … affairs, not from better biology alone. Economists can help set priorities to allocate scarce conservation resources where …

concentrated. Biologists and conservation advocates have advanced a number of arguments both that “biodiversity” is imperiled as … services of forest ecosystems will prove sufficient to motivate their conservation on a large scale. Other instruments for … conservation must, then, be employed if areas under intense pressure for conversion are to be preserved. …

associated with increasing real demand for biodiversity conservation, then investment to protect remaining diversity should grow … in this case. The role of conservation effort in addressing environmental problems is examined through state protection … of land and the regulation of trade in endangered species, two important means of biodiversity conservation. This …

of land and climate attributes. We conclude that European conservation efforts lack ambition because policymakers select …

joint objective of conservation and development. Our main result is that current property rights systems are efficient only …

Integrated Conservation and Development Projects (ICDPs) within the countryside. In particular, the paper concludes that for the … of a development strategy that tries to combine biodiversity conservation within a framework of sustainable economic …