Biodiversity Conservation: Problems and Policies: Ecology, Economy & Environment, cartea 4

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 ecological monitoring.- 3 The Valuation of Biodiversity.- 7 Modelling the value of biodiversity using a production function approach: the case of the Anolis lizard in the Lesser and Greater Antilles.- 8 Ecology and microeconomics as ‘joint products’: the Bonaire Marine Park in the Caribbean.- 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 approach.- 12 A dynamic computable general equilibrium model of deforestation in Costa Rica.- 13 Biodiversity loss through tropical deforestation: the role of timber production and trade.- 14 Sustainable use of tropical forests in 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.