This paper deals with the question of whether for biodiversity an Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) exists. In addition … biodiversity cannot be proven empirically. On the contrary, an EKC for biodiversity seems rather not to exist. Given the rapid rate … role. In particular, property rights regimes seem to matter with respect to the biodiversity issue. Doubts over the …

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

Biodiversity is an important environmental public good. However, the literature suggests that it is not clear how its … biodiversity value from the ecological and economic literatures and combines them to a comprehensive and consistent framework. It … is argued that biodiversity is the main carrier of insurance value, option value and spill-over value, and also …

. To understand these differences, 60 models addressing issues relevant to biodiversity conservation have been selected …

Given that both the costs and the benefits of biodiversity-enhancing land-use measures are subject to spatial variation … with uniform payments for biodiversity-enhancing land-use measures to be assessed. A simple ecologicaleconomic model is …

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 …