biodiversity protection, and to carry out an overview of established nature conservation programmes in selected EU countries. In … to protection of live natural resources to preserve biodiversity, which is essential for retaining the basic ecological … processes and providing the sustainability of usage of these resources. Consequently, protection of biodiversity is not only an …

constant degradation, resource depletion, global warming and loss of biodiversity. This is also because non-marketable services …

issues: climate change and biodiversity. Involvement of governments and a reference framework provided by intergovernmental …

As economic incentives for biodiversity and ecosystem service protection (e.g., payments for ecosystem services) have … that economic incentives may undermine people's intrinsic motivations to conserve biodiversity. In this paper we review the … theoretical insights and empirical findings on motivation crowding effects with economic instruments for biodiversity protection …

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 …