This paper explores possible interdependence of biodiversity and several socioeconomic and political factors at the … county level. It is aimed at the empirical identification of direct and indirect effects between biodiversity (loss) and … determinant of biodiversity status. However, the impact of regional socioeconomic structures on biodiversity should not be …

panel data on 139 countries during the 1990-2012 period, we find that democracy is associated with lower levels of forest … coverage. Although our results appear counter-intuitive, further analyses reveal the positive effect of democracy on forest … impact of democracy on forest coverage becomes positive. Our results suggest that a democratic government's priority to …

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 …