Biodiversity Economics (eBook, PDF)

Principles, Methods and Applications
Redaktion: Kontoleon, Andreas

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Produktbeschreibung

Human induced biodiversity loss is greater now than at any time in human history, with extinctions occurring at rates hundreds of times higher than background extinction levels. The field of biodiversity economics analyses the socio-economic causes of and solutions to biodiversity loss by combining the disciplines of economics, ecology and biology. This field has shown a remarkable degree of transformation over the past four decades and now incorporates the analysis of the entire diversity of biological resources within the living world. Biodiversity Economics presents a series of papers that show how bio-economic analysis can be applied to the examination and evaluation of the problem of various forms of biodiversity loss. Containing insightful bio-economic research by some of prominent practitioners in the field, this volume will be an essential research tool to those working on biodiversity issues in the academic, policy and private sectors.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511530258
• Artikelnr.: 38189200

Autorenporträt

Andreas Kontoleon is University Lecturer in the Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge.
Unai Pascual is University Lecturer in the Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge.
Timothy Swanson is Chair in Law and Economics at the Department of Economics and Faculty of Law, University College London.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures; List of contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Foreword
Jeffrey A. McNeely; Introduction Andreas Kontoleon, Unai Pascual and
Timothy Swanson; 1. Do we really care about biodiversity? David W. Pearce;
Part I. Causes of Biodiversity Loss: A. Land Conversion: 2. The economics
of land conversion, open access and biodiversity loss Edward B. Barbier; 3.
Estimating spatial interactions in deforestation decisions Juan Robalino,
Alexander Pfaff and Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa; 4. Resource exploitation,
biodiversity and ecological events Yacov Tsur and Amos Zemel; B. Invasives:
5. Pests pathogens and poverty: biological invasions and agricultural
dependence Charles Perrings; 6. Prevention versus control in Invasive
Species Management David Finnoff, Jason F. Shogren, Brian Leung and David
Lodge; C. International Trade: 7. Trade and renewable resources in a
second-best world: an overview Erwin Bulte and Ed Barbier; 8. International
trade and its impact on biological diversity Rafat Alam and Nguyen V Quyen;
Part II. The Value of Biodiversity: A. Concepts: 9. Designing the legacy
library of genetic resources: approaches, methods, and results Tim Swanson
and Timo Goeschl; 10. Why the measurement of species diversity requires
prior value judgments Stefan Baumgärtner; B. Techniques: 11. Combining TCM
and CVM of endangered species conservation program: estimation of the
marginal value of vultures (Gyps fulvus) in the presence of
species-visitors interaction Nir Becker, Yael Choresh, Moshe Inbar and Ofer
Bahat; 12. Valuing ecological and anthropocentric concepts of biodiversity:
a choice experiments application Michael Christie and Nick Hanley, John
Warren, Tony Hyde, Kevin Murphy and Robert Wright; 13. Spatially explicit
choice experiments: a case of multiple-use management of forest recreation
sites Paula Horne, Peter Boxall and Wiktor Adamowicz; Part III. Policies
for Biodiversity Conservation: A. Contracts: 14. Auctioning biodiversity
conservation contracts Gary Stoneham, Vivek Chaudhri, Loris Strappazzon and
Arthur Ha; 15. An evolutionary institutional approach to the economics of
bioprospection Tom Dedeurwaerdere, Vijesh Krishna and Unai Pascual; 16. An
ecological economic programming approach to modelling landscape level
biodiversity conservation Ernst-August Nuppenau and Marc Helmer; B.
Implementation: 17. The effectiveness of centralized and decentralized
institutions in managing biodiversity: lessons from economic experiments
Jana Vyrastekova and Daan van Soest; 18. Conserving species in a working
landscape: land use with biological and economic objectives Steve Polasky,
Erik Nelson, Eric Lonsdorf, Paul Fackler and Anthony Starfield; 19.
Balancing recreation and wildlife conservation of charismatic species Doris
Behrens and Birgit Friedl; 20. Modelling the re-colonisation of native
species Anders Skonhoft; Part IV. Managing Agro-Biodiversity: Causes,
Values and Policies: 21. On the role of crop biodiversity in the management
of environmental risk Salvatore Di Falco and Jean-Paul Chavas; 22.
Assessing the private value of agro-biodiversity in Hungarian home gardens
using the data enrichment method Ekin Birol, Andreas Kontoleon and Melinda
Smale; 23. Agricultural development and the diversity of crop and livestock
genetic resources: a review of the economics literature Melinda Smale and
Adam Drucker; Index.