This work examines the impact that economic growth can have on biodiversity and on the ecological dynamics that would … naturally emerge in the absence of human activity. The loss of biodiversity may induce policy-makers to implement defensive … exist in the absence of human intervention. This suggests that there might exist a conflict between preserving biodiversity …

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 …