The environmental discussion is increasingly extended to the question of how to preserve biodiversity. As sensible … regulation of biodiversity utilization uses politically set incentive schemes, it is required to discus the monetary value of … biodiversity. Consequently, the relation between economic incentives and biodiversity is in the focus of our paper. By using bird …

We analyze whether biodiversity is enhancing the development process in developing countries (DCs) via increasing … tourism receipts in a trade based endogenous growth framework. The underlying assumption is that a rich biodiversity - only if … biodiversity while being significantly and positively correlated with inbound tourism receipts in DCs, has no significant relation …

palm oil within the GHG context. We discuss the impact of palm oil on biodiversity and analyse how palm oil can contribute … is much less significant than postulated by some recent campaigns. Furthermore, biodiversity in oil palm plantations is … goals on a fair and reasonable basis -- Renewable Energy ; Palm Oil ; Biodiversity ; Sustainable Development ; Environmental …

exporting countries (countries of destination), the most interesting outcome of the thesis is that biodiversity as proxy for … as well. Together with the tourism's potential to enhance economic growth, this reflects the value biodiversity can play … biodiversity to private or public (land-) owners to give them an economic incentive to use "their" nature sustainably. …