Biodiversity Conservation de C. A. Perrings

Biodiversity Conservation

C. A. Perrings

This text reports the more policy-oriented results of the Biodiversity programme of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Beijer Institute. The programme considered where the problem in biodiversity loss really lies, what costs it has for society, and how it might best be addressed.

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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.