environmental impacts of human land-use, including the deployment of renewable energy sources. While exclusion zones may provide …

The ecological literature suggests that biodiversity reduces the variance of ecosystem services. Thus, conservative … biodiversity management has an insurance value to risk-averse users of ecosystem services. We analyze a conceptual ecological … and external effects of management effort on biodiversity; and (iii) the welfare loss due to free-riding may decrease or …

Issues related to the cost-effectiveness of biodiversity conservation policies have not yet been prominent in European …

Compensation schemes in which land owners receive payments for voluntarily managing their land in a biodiversity …-enhancing manner have become one of the most important instruments for biodiversity conservation worldwide. One key challenge when … schemes and based on the idea of an agglomeration bonus we consider a scheme in which land-owners only receive payments if …