Markets for Biodiversity

Michael't Sas-Rolfes

Chapter 5 in Protecting the Environment, Privately, 2015, pp 89-112 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: Along with climate change, the continuing loss of the earth's biological diversity ( biodiversity) is a major contemporary environmental concern (Barnosky et al., 2011; Wilson, 2013). At the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, the world's governments established the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) to address this issue at a global level. The text of the CBD provides a definition of biodiversity that includes diversity within species, between species, and of ecosystems, thereby broadening the scope of previously narrower concerns relating to species conservation and protected areas…

Keywords: Environmental Economics; Environmental Management; Private Sector; Environmental Goods; Environmental Services Schemes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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