...Do-hun Kim; Hanne K. Sjølie; Adan L. Martinez-Cruz; Francisco X. Aguilar European land management initiatives aim to increase biodiversity within overarching climate goals, but these impose implementation costs on landowners. What would be the welfare consequences for the public if they shared...

.... Its contribution to ecological balance and biodiversity preservation has been seen to gradually slow down. Faced with the weight of various stakeholders’ private interests involved in forest exploitation, informal forest governance institutions have gradually collapsed. At the same time, the existing...

... conservation Biodiversity Revealed preferences In many parts of the world habitats, critical to the provision of biodiversity and ecosystem services, are becoming increasingly scarce. In addition, a large proportion of agricultural and forested land which hosts the habitats is privately-owned...

... and ecosystems, provision of raw materials and wild foods for local communities, watershed protection for a region, national income from ecotourism, carbon sequestration, being a landscape and habitat of rare species. This introduction provides summary for land use, forest preservation and biodiversity policy...

...Hualin Xie; Yafen He; Ning Zhang; Hua Lu Habitat loss and fragmentation resulting mainly from increased human impacts related to land use represent considerable threats to biodiversity. When regional ecological security is threatened, governments attempt to regulate unreasonable behavior via...

... of Forest Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå. Published by Elsevier GmbH 2012 Department of Forest Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå. Published by Elsevier GmbH Licensed re-use rights only Biodiversity Competitive bidding Information rents...

... conservation Biodiversity Compensation Willingness to accept Contingent valuation Q23 Q28 Q51 There is growing concern in the environmental economics literature that public benefits from forests are underprovided in current forest management regimes and need to be increased through policy...

... results, individuals’ willingness-to-pay (WTP) is higher for attributes associated with non-use values (native tree species and biodiversity conservation) than for attributes associated with use values (agricultural development and commercial forestry). The paper concludes that management policies related...

...Even Bergseng; Arild Vatn Protection of biodiversity on private forest land often yields conflict. In standard economic theory, disputes about compensation and compensation level are held forward as the main reason for conflict. We discuss the reasons for conflict in protection of biodiversity...

... and residual damages from the remaining population. The shrubby tree, Miconia calvescens, is used to illustrate dynamic policy options for a forest invader. Potential damages to Hawaii’s forest ecosystems are related to decreased aquifer recharge, biodiversity, and other ecosystem values. We find...

... Ranking of fuzzy numbers Forest planning Multiple-use forestry Biodiversity Q010 Q230 Q280 Figure 0 The Elsevier company logo featuring a woodcut illustration of a scholar standing beneath a vine-entwined elm tree with the Latin motto Non Solus. Environmental concerns have been...