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Biodiversity Conservation - Problems and Policies. Papers from the Biodiversity Programme Beijer International Institute of Ecological Economics Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

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This volume is one of a number of publications to carry the results of the first research programme of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science's Beijer Institute. The Institute was formed in 1991 in order to promote interdisciplinary research between natural and social scientists on the interdependency between economic and ecological systems. In its first research programme, the Biodiversity Programme, the Institute brought together a number of leading economists and ecologists to address the theoretical and policy issues associated with the current high rates of biodiversity loss in such systems - whether the result of direct depletion, the destruction of habitat, or specialisation in agriculture, forestry and fisheries. l This volume reports some of the more policy-oriented work carried out under the programme. The broad aim of the programme is to further our understanding of the causes and consequences of biodiversity loss, and to identify the options for addressing the problem. The results have turned out to be surprising to those who see biodiversity loss primarily in terms of the erosion of the genetic library. In various ways the work carried out under the programme has already begun to alter our perception of where the problem in biodiversity loss lies and what policy options are available to deal with it. Indeed, the programme has provided a powerful set of arguments for reappraising not just the economic and ecological implications of biodiversity loss, but the whole case for development based on specialisation of resource use.

List of contents

1 Framing the Problem.- 1 Biodiversity conservation and economic development: the policy problem.- 2 Biodiversity conservation and economic development: local and global dimensions.- 2: Understanding Biodiversity Change.- 3 Population extinction and the biodiversity crisis.- 4 Diversity conservation in relation to fisheries in the Baltic Sea.- 5 Rangeland ecology: managing change in biodiversity.- 6 Biodiversity, natural resource accounting and environmental monitoring.- 3:The Valuation of Biodiversity.- 7 Modeling the value of biodiversity using a production function approach.- 8 Valuation of a marine resource.- 9 Tropical wetland values and environmental functions.- 10 Valuation and the management of biological diversity.- 4: The Impact of Economic Policy.- 11 Environmental impact of governmental policies and external shocks in Botswana: A computable general equilibrium model approach.- 12 A dynamic CGE model of deforestation in Costa Rica.- 13 The timber trade as a cause of tropical deforestation.- 14 Sustainable use of tropical forests in South-East Asia.- 5: Options and Priorities for Biodiversity Conservation.- 15 Traditional ecological knowledge, biodiversity, resilience and sustainability.- 16 Conservation of biodiversity and economic development: the concept of transferable development rights.- 17 Biodiversity conservation and local development aspirations: new priorities for the 1990s.- 18 Unresolved issues.- References.

Product details

Assisted by A Perrings (Editor), C A Perrings (Editor), C. A. Perrings (Editor)
Publisher Springer Netherlands
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 17.10.2013
 
EAN 9789401044370
ISBN 978-94-0-104437-0
No. of pages 391
Dimensions 155 mm x 22 mm x 235 mm
Weight 621 g
Illustrations XVI, 391 p.
Series Ecology, Economy & Environment
Ecology, Economy & Environment
Subject Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Biochemistry, biophysics

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