We analyze whether biodiversity is enhancing the development process in developing countries (DCs) via increasing … tourism receipts in a trade based endogenous growth framework. The underlying assumption is that a rich biodiversity - only if … biodiversity while being significantly and positively correlated with inbound tourism receipts in DCs, has no significant relation …

are now said to have assumed a mandate to go beyond just biodiversity conservation to improving the welfare of local … protected areas, there is a paradigm shift that seeks to promote a model of biodiversity conservation where livelihood … activities are not just seen as compatible with biodiversity conservation but that it actually drives and facilitates conserv... …