The economics of biodiversity conservation
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The economics of biodiversity conservation
（International library of environmental economics and policy）
Ashgate, c2002
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Economic analysis has an important role in the study of biological diversity and its conservation: human actions are often the root cause of a decline; and a decline may negatively impact upon human welfare. This book collects a number of important articles in the embryonic field of the economics of biological diversity. Virtually all of the work by economists, including all of the articles in this collection, has been published since 1990. Many of the articles in this volume have been published since 1998. The book is divided into three main sections. The first contains articles which present an economic framework for analyzing biological diversity conservation issues; the second contains articles which analyze various aspects of the value of conserving biological diversity; and the third focuses on conservation strategies and politicies in the United States and in the developing world.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Framework for analysis of conservation policy: the Noah's ark problem, Martin L. Weitzman
- conserving biological resources with scarce resources, Stephen Polasky. Part 2 The value of biological diversity: biodiversity measures - conservation evaluation and phylogenetic diversity, Daniel P. Faith, on diversity, Martin L. Weitzman, measuring biological diversity, Andrew R. Solow and Stephen Polasky
- bioprospecting - valuing biodiversity for use in pharmaceutical research, David R. Simpson et al, valuing research leads - bioprospecting and the conservation of genetic resources, Gordon C. Rausser and Arthur A. Small, searching an ex-site collection of genetic resources, Douglas Gollin et al
- ecosystem services - the ecological consequences of changes in biodiversity - a search for general principles, David Tilman, biodiversity, resilience and the control of ecological-economic systems - the case of fire-driven rangelands, Charles Perrings and Brian Walker, valuing environmental functions - tropical wetlands, Edward B. Barbier
- existence values - economic benefits of rare and endangered species - summary and meta-analysis, John B. Loomis and Douglas S. White, measuring the existence value of wildlife - what do CVM estimates really show?, Thomas H. Stevens et al. Part 3 Conservation strategies: land use and the opportunity cost of conservation - species distributions, land values and efficient conservation, Amy Ando et al, pricing biodiversity, Claire A. Montgomery et al
- the marginal cost of species preservation - the case of the northern spotted owl, Claire A. Montgomery et al
- the US endangered species act - implementing the safe minimum standards approach - two case studies from the US endangered species act, Robert P. Berrens et al, patterns of behaviour in endangered species preservation, Andrew Metrick and Martin L. Weitzman, when the truth hurts - endangered species policy on private land with imperfect information, Stephen Polasky and Holly Doremus
- conservation strategies in developing countries -elephants, Michael Kremer and Charles Morcom, wildlife harvest in integrated conservation and development projects - linking harvests to household demand, agricultural production and environmental shocks in the Serengeti, Christopher B. Barrett and Peter Arcese, trade, tropical deforestation and policy interventions, Edward B. Barbier and Michael Rauscher, the structure of an environmental transaction - the debt for nature swap, Robert T. Deacon and Paul Murphy.
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