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Economics of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

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BAU Scenario
Biodiversity
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Climate change
contingent
economic instruments for ecosystem protection
Ecosystem
Ecosystem Restoration Projects
Ecosystem Services
ecosystem valuation
Emission Permits Trading Schemes
Environment economics
Environment sustainability
environmental impact assessment
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Fish Prices
Gdp Growth Rate
institutional design conservation
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Invasive Alien Species
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Multi-destination Trips
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Offset Schemes
payment
payment for ecosystem services
Pe Policy
Pe Scheme
protected
REDD-plus policy
resource management economics
Site Quality Attributes
Spatial Econometric Approach
species
Tradable Allowance Schemes
Urban Heat Islands
valuation

Product details

  • ISBN 9780415705806
  • Weight: 470g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 14 Aug 2015
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Description

Ecosystems and biodiversity have been degraded over decades due to human activities. One of the critical causes is market failure: the current market only accounts tangible resources and neglects intangible functions, such as climate control and natural hazard mitigation. Under such circumstances in capitalism, land conversion and resource exploitation, which generate financial income, are highly prioritised over conservation, which is not necessarily beneficial in monetary terms.

To halt ecosystem degradation, thus, the values of ecosystem services need to be visualised and economic instruments for ecosystem conservation should be further developed. This book focuses on these two aspects and performs several studies, including valuation of ecosystem services, productivity analysis, institutional design of payment for ecosystem services (PES), impact assessment of reduction emission from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD), and economic experiment of mitigation banking scheme. From these analysis, economic values of ecosystem services are demonstrated from both supply and demand side, and the directions for improving economic instruments are indicated both directly and indirectly.

As many of these analysis are usually conducted in the North America and Europe, this book is unique in geographical focus, namely, Japan, Asia and globe. Also, wide variety of ecosystems are targeted for studies; agricultural lands, forests, wetlands, and marine. Hence, this will be informative introduction for those who desire to study economics of biodiversity and ecosystem services in these regions and of these ecological zones.
About
Shunsuke Managi is Professor of Technology and Policy, School of Engineering at Kyushu University, Japan, while also holding position as IGES fellow at Institute for Global Environmental Strategies and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Tokyo. He is an editor of Environmental Economic and Policy Studies, a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and is the author of "Technology, Natural Resources and Economic Growth: Improving the Environment for a Greener Future" and editor of "The Routledge Handbook of Environmental Economics in Asia".