Baumgärtner, Stefan; Quaas, Martin - Department Ökonomie, Helmholtz Zentrum für … - 2005
biodiversity management has an insurance value to risk-averse users of ecosystem services. We analyze a conceptual ecological …The ecological literature suggests that biodiversity reduces the variance of ecosystem services. Thus, conservative … the extent of uncertainty and risk-aversion as follows: (i) Individual effort to improve ecosystem quality unambiguously …