of biodiversity-relevant impact evaluation studies, across both terrestrial and marine ecosystems. The report concludes …This report provides an overview of methodologies to evaluate the effectiveness of policy instruments for biodiversity …

ecosystems. We summarize the state of knowledge about the impacts of protected area policies, with a focus on deforestation and … econometric advancements, shifting focus to direct measures of biodiversity, filling the knowledge gap on the effect of protected …

There are now a large number of valuation studies on the benefits of biodiversity and on ecosystem services, the … services provided by different ecosystems (ESS). Both ideas have been used to elicit values from nature but in recent years the … research community has focussed on ESS as the main organising framework, with some additional use of the biodiversity concept …

Natural ecosystems provide a variety of benefits to society, known as “ecosystem services.” Fundamental to the … provision of ecosystem services in a region is its underlying biodiversity, i.e., the wealth and variety of plants, animals, and … microorganisms. Because the benefits from ecosystem services and biodiversity are not valued in market exchanges, private landowners …

Human economies and ecosystems form a coupled system coevolving in time and space, since human economies use ecosystems … services and at the same time affect ecosystems through their production and consumption activities. The study of the … interactions between human economies and ecosystems is fundamental for the efficient use of natural resources and the protection of …

Human economies and ecosystems form a coupled system coevolving in time and space, since human economies use ecosystems … services and at the same time affect ecosystems through their production and consumption activities. The study of the … interactions between human economies and ecosystems is fundamental for the efficient use of natural resources and the protection of …

cover increased between 1990 and 2010. As "forests" is a heterogeneous group, a biodiversity-corrected Forestation Index is … positive impact on biodiversity) and monocultures (that are debatable with that respect). OLS regression is used to reveal …

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 …

issues: climate change and biodiversity. Involvement of governments and a reference framework provided by intergovernmental …