happening in almost 70 countries (on approximately 40% of the world forested area). This study focuses on countries where forest … cover increased between 1990 and 2010. As "forests" is a heterogeneous group, a biodiversity-corrected Forestation Index is … positive impact on biodiversity) and monocultures (that are debatable with that respect). OLS regression is used to reveal …

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 …

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 …

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 …

provision of ecosystem services in a region is its underlying biodiversity, i.e., the wealth and variety of plants, animals, and … microorganisms. Because the benefits from ecosystem services and biodiversity are not valued in market exchanges, private landowners …

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 …

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 …

This paper investigates the relationship between economic growth, biodiversity loss and efforts to conserve … biodiversity using a combination of panel and cross section data. If economic growth is a cause of biodiversity loss through … associated with increasing real demand for biodiversity conservation, then investment to protect remaining diversity should grow …