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Estimating optimal conservation in agricultural landscapes when costs and benefits of conservation measures are heterogeneous in space and over time
Wätzold, Frank; Lienhoop, Nele; Drechsler, Martin; … - 2006
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...
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A model-based approach for designing cost-effective compensation payments for conservation of endangered species in real landscapes
Drechsler, Martin; Wätzold, Frank; Johst, Karin; … - 2005
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...
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Trade-offs between carbon sequestration, landscape aesthetics and biodiversity in a cost-benefit analysis of land use options in Norway
Iversen, Endre Kildal; Grimsrud, Kristine M.; Lindhjem, … - 2019
semi-natural pastureland. However, the program may have negative impacts on landscape aesthetics and biodiversity. We … from carbon sequestration and biodiversity seem more constant across space. The net present value of all land use … substantial hypothetical bias in benefit estimates and for cost increases. Results indicate that landscape and biodiversity values …
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Local stakeholders' use of forest reserves in Kasyoha-Kitomi forest landscape, Uganda and Nguru South forest landscape, Tanzania
Raben, Kim (contributor) - 2007
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Towards an agri-environment index for biodiversity conservation payment schemes
Dittmer, Franziska; Groth, Markus - 2010
specific ecological and economical factors that reflect benefits and costs of biodiversity conservation. Main findings are that … site and point out its significance for biodiversity conservation (Conservation Significance Factor), ii) a criterion that …) criteria that estimate the potential biodiversity outcomes induced by specific management actions (Conservation Management …
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Comparing visible and less visible costs of the Habitats Directive : the case of hamster conservation in Germany
Eppink, Florian V.; Wätzold, Frank - 2007
The EU Habitats Directive provides in Annexes II and IV a list of species needing to be conserved. Member States have implemented a variety of conservation measures in response to this obligation. These measures include the rejection, modification or delay of land development plans, payments for...
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Integrating economic costs into the analysis of flexible conservation management strategies
Drechsler, Martin; Johst, Karin; Wätzold, Frank; … - 2005
Flexible conservation management, where measures are selected in each decision period and depending on the current state of the ecological system, are generally perceived as superior to fixed management, where the same measure is applied in each decision period independent of the current state...
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Are diverse ecosystems more valuable? : a conceptual framework for economic valuation of biodiversity
Bartkowski, Bartosz - 2016
Biodiversity is an important environmental public good. However, the literature suggests that it is not clear how its … biodiversity value from the ecological and economic literatures and combines them to a comprehensive and consistent framework. It … is argued that biodiversity is the main carrier of insurance value, option value and spill-over value, and also …
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