Rapidly declining biodiversity has made international and national policies focus on the question of how best to … protect genetic resources. Loss of biodiversity does not only concern wildlife, but equally affects agriculturally used … diversity. This handbook was conceived within the project Sustainable conservation of animal genetic resources in marginal rural …

plant and animal species is income production through trade, especially in poor countries lacking other major resources …

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 …Legitimacy is regarded as one critical aspect of biodiversity management and nature conservation arrangements. Multi …

In order to facilitate the use of biodiversity indicators in policy making at the country level, a few and well …-established indices should be suggested. Promising candidates include biodiversity-related indices of the Convention on Biological … ecosystem level have already been in use, but they are not necessarily useful measures of the state of biodiversity in their …