payments for conservation of endangered species in real landscapes. The approach is used to develop a cost …-effective compensation payment scheme for conservation of an endangered butterfly species (Maculinea teleius) protected by the EU Habitats … Directive in the region of Landau, Germany. The economic model determines the costs of relevant conservation measures mowing …

Designing agri-environmental schemes targeted at conservation poses the key question of how many financial resources … should be allocated to address a particular aim such as the conservation of an endangered species. Economists can contribute … to an answer by estimating the 'optimal level of species conservation'. This requires an assessment of the supply and the …

Issues related to the cost-effectiveness of biodiversity conservation policies have not yet been prominent in European … conservation research and policy-making. Nevertheless, there is a small but growing literature which analyses such cost … compensation payments for conservation measures as the two most relevant conservation policy instruments in Europe. Progress has …