This book sets out the building blocks of an economic approach to biodiversity, and in particular brings together … addressed. This collection of high-quality chapters addresses the economic issues involved in biodiversity protection. This book …

The objectives of this new EU Action Plan are to: • Reinforce action to halt the loss of biodiversity in the EU by 2010 … significantly reducing the rate of biodiversity loss worldwide by 2010. The Action Plan identifies four main policy areas and sets … out 1 0 key objectives to deliver the 2 010 biodiversity target and put biodiversity on the course to recovery. These are …

As the first indicator-based assessment of progress towards the European target of halting biodiversity loss by 2010 …, this report serves two purposes. First, it takes stock of the state of biodiversity and its loss in Europe based on the …

The present report considers the status and trends of pan-European biodiversity in a range of ecosystems, and the … implications of these trends for biodiversity management policy and practice. It considers the key biodiversity policy instruments … currently applied in Europe, the threats to biodiversity and the management implications of such threats across major habitat …