The ecological literature suggests that biodiversity reduces the variance of ecosystem services. Thus, conservative … biodiversity management has an insurance value to risk-averse users of ecosystem services. We analyze a conceptual ecological … and external effects of management effort on biodiversity; and (iii) the welfare loss due to free-riding may decrease or …

-effective compensation payment scheme for conservation of an endangered butterfly species (Maculinea teleius) protected by the EU Habitats …

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 arrangement of habitats bearing in mind that for given total habitat area …

patch depends on its spatial relationship with other habitats and thus is an emergent rather than a fixed property. We … analyse the spatial and temporal dynamics of habitats in a region under a TDR market that takes spatial interaction of … habitats explicitly into account. We show that depending on the levels of spatial interaction and cost heterogeneity, two …

Legitimacy is regarded as one critical aspect of biodiversity management and nature conservation arrangements. Multi … multilevel governance contexts, and to analyse empirically biodiversity governance in different EU countries in the light of … biodiversity governance from different EU countries. The results show that several of the legitimacy challenges in multilevel …

we estimate the optimal conservation level of Large Blue butterflies (protected by the EU Habitats Directive) in the …

Issues related to the cost-effectiveness of biodiversity conservation policies have not yet been prominent in European …