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 …

In order to facilitate the use of biodiversity indicators in policy making at the country level, a few and well …-established indices should be suggested. Promising candidates include biodiversity-related indices of the Convention on Biological … ecosystem level have already been in use, but they are not necessarily useful measures of the state of biodiversity in their …

specific ecological and economical factors that reflect benefits and costs of biodiversity conservation. Main findings are that … site and point out its significance for biodiversity conservation (Conservation Significance Factor), ii) a criterion that …) criteria that estimate the potential biodiversity outcomes induced by specific management actions (Conservation Management …