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 …

Biodiversity provides insurance against the uncertain provision of ecosystem services which are being used by risk …-averse economic agents. I present a conceptual ecological-economic model that combines (i) current results from ecology about the … relationships between biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, and the provision of ecosystem services with (ii) economic methods to …