Compensation schemes in which land owners receive payments for voluntarily managing their land in a biodiversity-enhancing manner have become one of the most important instruments for biodiversity conservation worldwide. One key challenge when designing such schemes is to account for the spatial...

An approach is present which integrates an economic and an ecological model for designing cost-effective compensation 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...

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-effectiveness issues on both a conceptual and an applied...

Auf die Versorgung von Wohngebäuden mit Raumwärme und Warmwasser entfällt in Deutschland ein erheblicher Teil des Endenergiebedarfs. Ihrer Transformation kommt folglich eine gewichtige Rolle bei der Erreichung der energie- und klimapolitischen Ziele der Bundesregierung zu. Sogenannte...