TY - BOOK AU - Kontoleon,Andreas AU - Pascual,Unai AU - Swanson,Timothy M. TI - Biodiversity economics SN - 9780521866835 AV - 333.95 .BIO U1 - 333.95 22 PY - 2007/// CY - Cambridge, New York PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Biodiversity conservation KW - Economic aspects N1 - Contents List of Figures 12 List of Tables 16 List of Contributors 22 Preface 29 Acknowledgements 33 Foreword Jeffrey A. McNeely (Chief Biodiversity Officer IUCN) 35 Introduction Andreas Kontoleon, Unai Pascual, Timothy Swanson 39 1. Do We Really Care About Biodiversity? David W. Pearce 82 I. CAUSES OF BIODIVERSITY LOSS 153 A. Land Conversion 154 2. The Economics of Land Conversion, Open Access and Biodiversity Loss Edward B. Barbier 155 3. Estimating Spatial Interactions in Deforestation Decisions Juan Robalino, Alexander Pfaff, and Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa 228 4. Resource Exploitation, Biodiversity and Ecological Events Yacov Tsur and Amos Zemel 277 B. Invasives 311 5. Pests Pathogens and Poverty: Biological Invasions and Agricultural Dependence Charles Perrings 312 6. Prevention versus Control in Invasive Species Management David Finnoff, Jason F. Shogren, Brian Leung, David Lodge 388 C. International Trade 444 7. Trade and Renewable Resources in a Second-Best World: An Overview Erwin Bulte and Ed Barbier 445 8. International Trade and its Impact on Biological Diversity Rafat Alam and Nguyen V Quyen 535 II. THE VALUE OF BIODIVERSITY 589 A. Concepts 590 9. Designing the Legacy Library of Genetic Resources: Approaches, Methods, and Results Tim Swanson and Timo Goeschl 591 10. Why the Measurement of Species Diversity Requires Prior Value Judgments Stefan Baumg¿artner 635 B. Techniques 675 11. Combining TCM and CVM of endangered species conservation program: Estimation of the marginal value of vultures (Gyps fulvus) in the presence of species -- visitors interaction Nir Becker, Yael Choresh, Moshe Inbar and Ofer Bahat 676 12. Valuing ecological and anthropocentric concepts of biodiversity: a choice experiments application. Michael Christie and Nick Hanley, John Warren, Tony Hyde, Kevin Murphy and Robert Wright 738 13. Spatially Explicit Choice Experiments: A Case of Multiple-Use Management of Forest Recreation Sites Paula Horne, Peter Boxall and Wiktor Adamowicz 791 III. POLICIES FOR BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION 823 A. Contracts 824 14. Auctioning Biodiversity Conservation Contracts Gary Stoneham, Vivek Chaudhri, Loris Strappazzon and Arthur Ha825 15. An evolutionary institutional approach to the economics of bioprospection Tom Dedeurwaerdere, Vijesh Krishna and Unai Pascual 887 16. An Ecological Economic Programming Approach to Modelling Landscape Level Biodiversity Conservation Ernst-August Nuppenau and Marc Helmer 949 B. Implementation 1012 17. The Effectiveness of Centralized and Decentralized Institutions in Managing Biodiversity: Lessons from Economic Experiments Jana Vyrastekova and Daan van Soest 1013 18. Conserving Species in a Working Landscape: Land Use with Biological and Economic Objectives. Steve Polasky, Erik Nelson, Eric Lonsdorf, Paul. Fackler and Anthony Starfield. [Published in Ecological Applications, v.15, no.4, pp.1387--1401, 2005] 1058 19. Balancing Recreation and Wildlife Conservation of Charismatic Species Doris Behrens and Birgit Friedl 1112 20. Modelling the Re-colonisation of Native Species. Anders Skonhoft 1164 IV. MANAGING AGRO-BIODIVERSITY: CAUSES, VALUES AND POLICIES 1209 21. On the Role of Crop Biodiversity in the Management of Environmental Risk. Salvatore Di Falco and Jean-Paul Chavas 1210 22. Assessing The Private Value Of Agro-biodiversity in Hungarian Home Gardens Using the Data Enrichment Method Ekin Birol, Andreas Kontoleon and Melinda Smale 1238 23. Agricultural development and the diversity of crop and livestock genetic resources: a review of the economics literature. Melinda Smale and Adam Drucker 1301 Index 0000 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip078/2007000297.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0729/2007000297-b.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0729/2007000297-d.html ER -