Biodiversity economics / edited by Andreas Kontoleon, Unai Pascual and Timothy Swanson.

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