This multidisciplinary work explores ways of making environmental policy decisions in managing public goods and natural parks with the goal of maximizing economic benefits to society. The contributors to the volume seek the best strategies for improving the environmental sustainability and...

Governments and private sector actors are increasingly recognising the potential of harnessing markets to help arrest the degradation of biodiversity. The private provision of biodiversity products and services is proving to be quite feasible in some circumstances

The article discusses the implementation of a new scheme for the outcome-based remuneration of environmental goods and services of agriculture that has been carried out as a case study in the period 2004 to 2006 in a German model region (county Northeim in the south of Lower-Saxony). This new...

Die Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, welche Voraussetzungen dafür erfüllt sein müssen, damit sich Naturschutzvorhaben, die Nutzungsverzichte und Veränderungen der gewohnten Landbewirtschaftung verfolgen, als regionales Anliegen etablieren können und nachhaltige Entwicklungen...