The conservation of biodiversity is a major environmental issue, one that promises to remain at or near the top of the … environmental agenda for the foreseeable future. The loss of biodiversity affects human welfare as well as being lamentable for its … climate regulation. Threats to biodiversity include habitat loss and fragmentation, the introduction of nonindigenous species …

counter these in selected OECD countries. More specifically, the paper begins with an overview of the main biodiversity and …

The world has pledged to protect 30 percent of its land and waters by 2030 to halt the rapid deterioration of critical … summarize empirical evidence across multiple regions of the world. In most cases, protection has had at most a modest impact on … econometric advancements, shifting focus to direct measures of biodiversity, filling the knowledge gap on the effect of protected …

There are now a large number of valuation studies on the benefits of biodiversity and on ecosystem services, the … research community has focussed on ESS as the main organising framework, with some additional use of the biodiversity concept …

This paper provides an overview of the main trends in development finance with biodiversity-related objectives for the …

biodiversity. This paper uses the staggered introduction of protected-area policies between 1985 and 2020 to study the selection of …

developed world have been increasing, not declining. Improvements in growing and processing technology, in combination with … concentrated. Biologists and conservation advocates have advanced a number of arguments both that “biodiversity” is imperiled as …