Biodiversity Economics: Principles, Methods and Applications

by Edited by Andreas Kontoleon , Unai Pascual , Timothy Swanson

• ISBN13: 9780521154659
• ISBN10: 0521154650
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-06-24
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

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 state-of-the-art bio-economic research by some of the leading 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.

Table of Contents

List of figures

List of contributors

Preface

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Introduction

Do we really care about biodiversity?

Causes of Biodiversity Loss: A. Land Conversion:

The economics of land conversion, open access and biodiversity loss

Estimating spatial interactions in deforestation decisions

Resource exploitation, biodiversity and ecological events

Invasives:

Pests pathogens and poverty: biological invasions and agricultural dependence

Prevention versus control in Invasive Species Management

International Trade:

Trade and renewable resources in a second-best world: an overview

International trade and its impact on biological diversity

The Value of Biodiversity: A. Concepts:

Designing the legacy library of genetic resources: approaches, methods, and results

Why the measurement of species diversity requires prior value judgments

Techniques:

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

Valuing ecological and anthropocentric concepts of biodiversity: a choice experiments application Michael Christie and Nick Hanley

Spatially explicit choice experiments: a case of multiple-use management of forest recreation sites

Policies for Biodiversity Conservation: A. Contracts:

Auctioning biodiversity conservation contracts

An evolutionary institutional approach to the economics of bioprospection

An ecological economic programming approach to modelling landscape level biodiversity conservation

Implementation:

The effectiveness of centralized and decentralized institutions in managing biodiversity: lessons from economic experiments

Conserving species in a working landscape: land use with biological and economic objectives

Balancing recreation and wildlife conservation of charismatic species

Modelling the re-colonisation of native species

Managing Agro-Biodiversity: Causes, Values and Policies:

On the role of crop biodiversity in the management of environmental risk Salvatore

Assessing the private value of agro-biodiversity in Hungarian home gardens using the data enrichment method

Agricultural development and the diversity of crop and livestock genetic resources: a review of the economics literature

Index

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