Ebook: Biodiversity Conservation: Problems and Policies

This book reports the more policy-oriented results of the Biodiversity programme of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Beijer Institute. The programme brought economists and ecologists together to consider where the problem in biodiversity loss really lies, what costs it has for society, and how it might best be addressed. The results are strikingly different from those reported in other works on the subject. Biodiversity loss matters for all ecosystems -- not just the megadiversity tropical forests. And it matters because it compromises the resilience and so the productivity of those systems. Biodiversity conservation requires the development of policies that change the behaviour of resource use everywhere -- not just in parks and reserves.
The book is required reading for researchers and policy makers alike. It canvasses options for the reform of park management, biodiversity conservation projects, property rights, tax, trade and price regimes that are within the reach of governments everywhere.

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This book reports the more policy-oriented results of the Biodiversity programme of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Beijer Institute. The programme brought economists and ecologists together to consider where the problem in biodiversity loss really lies, what costs it has for society, and how it might best be addressed. The results are strikingly different from those reported in other works on the subject. Biodiversity loss matters for all ecosystems -- not just the megadiversity tropical forests. And it matters because it compromises the resilience and so the productivity of those systems. Biodiversity conservation requires the development of policies that change the behaviour of resource use everywhere -- not just in parks and reserves.
The book is required reading for researchers and policy makers alike. It canvasses options for the reform of park management, biodiversity conservation projects, property rights, tax, trade and price regimes that are within the reach of governments everywhere.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Biodiversity Conservation and Economic Development: The Policy Problem....Pages 3-21
Biodiversity Conservation and Economic Development: Local and Global Dimensions....Pages 23-40
Front Matter....Pages 43-43
Population Extinction and the Biodiversity Crisis....Pages 45-55
Diversity Conservation in Relation to Fisheries in the Baltic Sea....Pages 57-67
Rangeland Ecology: Managing Change in Biodiversity....Pages 69-85
Biodiversity, Natural Resource Accounting and Ecological Monitoring....Pages 87-110
Front Matter....Pages 113-113
Modelling the Value of Biodiversity using a Production Function Approach: The Case of the Anolis Lizard in the Lesser and Greater Antilles....Pages 115-125
Ecology and Microeconomics as ‘Joint Products’: The Bonaire Marine Park in the Caribbean....Pages 127-145
Tropical Wetland Values and Environmental Functions....Pages 147-169
Valuation in the Management of Biological Diversity....Pages 171-191
Front Matter....Pages 193-193
Environmental Impact of Governmental Policies and External Shocks in Botswana: A Computable General Equilibrium Approach....Pages 195-214
A Dynamic CGE Model of Deforestation in Costa Rica....Pages 215-235
Biodiversity Loss through Tropical Deforestation: The Role of Timber Production and Trade....Pages 237-255
Sustainable use of Tropical Forests in Asia....Pages 257-277
Front Matter....Pages 279-279
Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Biodiversity, Resilience and Sustainability....Pages 281-299
Conservation of Biodiversity and Economic Development: The Concept of Transferable Development Rights....Pages 301-317
Biodiversity Conservation and Local Development Aspirations: New Priorities for the 1990s....Pages 319-333
Unresolved Issues....Pages 335-342
Back Matter....Pages 343-405

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This book reports the more policy-oriented results of the Biodiversity programme of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Beijer Institute. The programme brought economists and ecologists together to consider where the problem in biodiversity loss really lies, what costs it has for society, and how it might best be addressed. The results are strikingly different from those reported in other works on the subject. Biodiversity loss matters for all ecosystems -- not just the megadiversity tropical forests. And it matters because it compromises the resilience and so the productivity of those systems. Biodiversity conservation requires the development of policies that change the behaviour of resource use everywhere -- not just in parks and reserves.
The book is required reading for researchers and policy makers alike. It canvasses options for the reform of park management, biodiversity conservation projects, property rights, tax, trade and price regimes that are within the reach of governments everywhere.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Biodiversity Conservation and Economic Development: The Policy Problem....Pages 3-21
Biodiversity Conservation and Economic Development: Local and Global Dimensions....Pages 23-40
Front Matter....Pages 43-43
Population Extinction and the Biodiversity Crisis....Pages 45-55
Diversity Conservation in Relation to Fisheries in the Baltic Sea....Pages 57-67
Rangeland Ecology: Managing Change in Biodiversity....Pages 69-85
Biodiversity, Natural Resource Accounting and Ecological Monitoring....Pages 87-110
Front Matter....Pages 113-113
Modelling the Value of Biodiversity using a Production Function Approach: The Case of the Anolis Lizard in the Lesser and Greater Antilles....Pages 115-125
Ecology and Microeconomics as ‘Joint Products’: The Bonaire Marine Park in the Caribbean....Pages 127-145
Tropical Wetland Values and Environmental Functions....Pages 147-169
Valuation in the Management of Biological Diversity....Pages 171-191
Front Matter....Pages 193-193
Environmental Impact of Governmental Policies and External Shocks in Botswana: A Computable General Equilibrium Approach....Pages 195-214
A Dynamic CGE Model of Deforestation in Costa Rica....Pages 215-235
Biodiversity Loss through Tropical Deforestation: The Role of Timber Production and Trade....Pages 237-255
Sustainable use of Tropical Forests in Asia....Pages 257-277
Front Matter....Pages 279-279
Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Biodiversity, Resilience and Sustainability....Pages 281-299
Conservation of Biodiversity and Economic Development: The Concept of Transferable Development Rights....Pages 301-317
Biodiversity Conservation and Local Development Aspirations: New Priorities for the 1990s....Pages 319-333
Unresolved Issues....Pages 335-342
Back Matter....Pages 343-405
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