Nature conservation scientists and practitioners have voiced the concern that a conservation discourse based on … economic arguments and monetary valuation may undermine conservation efforts by eroding ("crowding out") the influence of other … arguments for nature conservation. This paper presents the results of a decision experiment in which nature conservation is …

Understanding what influences the value of nature is crucial for informing environmental policy. From a sustainability … perspective, economic valuation should not only seek to determine willingness to pay for environmental goods to devise an … economic inequality affects the value of non-market environmental goods remains understudied. Combining recently developed …

Tourism and environmental preservation are often conflicting activities, mainly in areas such as coastal lagoons, where … problem of both environmental and tourism economics, the internalization of environmental costs of tourism, focusing on the … of the local berths endowment (i. e. a higher vessels transit in the Lagoon) is more effective for nature conservation …

looks at optimal policies of biodiversity conservation. The subject of the paper is "natural" biodiversity, which is … choice of environmental-policy instruments, it is shown that Pigouvian taxes do not always establish the optimal allocation …. -- biodiversity ; new economic geography ; agglomeration ; species redundancy vs. endemism ; environmental regulation …

looks at optimal policies of biodiversity conservation. The subject of the paper is natural biodiversity, which is … choice of environmental-policy instruments, it is shown that Pigouvian taxes do not always establish the optimal allocation …

We develop an aggregated model to study rational environmental adaptation policies that compensate negative … consequences of certain environmental hazards and changes. The model distinguishes the three categories of adaptation measures that … (a) compensate the decrease of the environmental amenity value, (b) compensate the decrease of total productivity, (c …