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Valuation and Conservation of Biodiversity

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Convention on Biological Diversity

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Authors:
  1. Michael Markussen

    1. Paderborn, Germany

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  2. Ralph Buse

    1. Institute for Production and Investment Department of Corporate Planning, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

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  3. Heiko Garrelts

    1. Institute for Forest Policy, Forest History and Nature Protection University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

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  4. María A. Máñez Costa

    1. Valencia, Spain

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  5. Susanne Menzel

    1. Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

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  6. Rainer Marggraf

    1. Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

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  • Biodiversity is more than ever a contemporary issue

  • A transdisciplinary understandable book that identifies the problems of loss of biodiversity from a global, regional and local point of view

  • Gives an insight into current trends of international conservation and valuation of biodiversity

  • The Convention on Biological Diversity is the common reference of all investigations

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XXIX
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  2. Global and general perspectives on the Convention on Biological Diversity

    1. Global Conservation of Biodiversity from an Economic Point of View

      • Rainer Marggraf
      Pages 3-21

    2. Financial support for biodiversity protection in developing countries — does the CBD mechanism lead to an appropriate level of biodiversity protection?

      • Susanne Menzel
      Pages 23-41

    3. The Cartagena Protocol: trade related measures as a means to protect biological diversity from risks deriving from genetically modified organisms

      • Alexander Behrens
      Pages 43-64

    4. Policy-Windows for the Declaration of Protected Areas — A Comparative Case Study of East Germany and Guatemala

      • Heiko Garrelts, Regina Birner, Heidi Wittmer
      Pages 65-83

    5. Will companies engage in the conservation of biodiversity? A prototypical model of aggregated pro-biodiverse actions of industrial companies

      • Ralph Buse
      Pages 85-103

  3. Local, regional and nationwide perspectives on the Convention on Biological Diversity: Examples from Germany

    1. Problems and Prospects of the Conservation of Biodiversity in Germany

      • Matthias Schaefer
      Pages 107-131

    2. The Designation of National Parks in German Nature Conservation Law

      • Tobias Hellenbroich
      Pages 133-153

    3. Conservation management of target species or conservation of processes — Winners and losers of two different conservation strategies

      • Judith Rothenbücher, Kai Bentlage, Peter Just
      Pages 155-192

    4. Valuation of ecosystem services provided by biodiversity conservation: an integrated hydrological and economic model to value the enhanced nitrogen retention in renaturated streams

      • Ingo Bräuer
      Pages 193-204

    5. Towards sustainable land use: Public demand for plant diversity in agricultural landscapes of central Germany

      • Anke Fischer
      Pages 205-220

    6. Narrating diversity: Plants, personal knowledge and life stories in German home gardens

      • Anne Holl
      Pages 221-248

    7. Aspects of bird valuation in Brandenburg-Prussia: Towards the significance of socio-economic conditions for biodiversity perception between the 16th and 20th century

      • Johannes Klose
      Pages 249-281

  4. Local, regional and nationwide perspectives on the Convention on Biological Diversity: Examples from Guatemala

    1. Prospects and Challenges for Biodiversity Conservation in Guatemala

      • Regina Birner, Heidi Wittmer, Augustin Berghöfer, Michael Mühlenberg
      Pages 285-296

    2. Calculating Incentives for Watershed Protection. A Case Study In Guatemala

      • María A. Máñez Costa, Manfred Zeller
      Pages 297-314

    3. The cultural context of biodiversity conservation

      • Petra Maass
      Pages 315-342

    4. Direct payments for conservation — the importance of environmental measures in farming systems for bird populations in a fragmented landscape. A case study in Guatemala

      • María A. Máñez Costa, Swen C. Renner
      Pages 343-356

    5. Land use changes and abiotic aspects as basic conditions for conservation of biodiversity in a tropical montane cloud forest (Guatemala)

      • Michael Markussen, Swen C. Renner
      Pages 357-372

    6. Human impact on bird diversity and community structure in a tropical montane cloud forest in Alta Verapaz, Guatemala, with special reference to the Quetzal (Pharomachrus mocinno)

      • Swen C. Renner, Michael Markussen
      Pages 373-390

    7. What drives biodiversity loss in the land of trees? A review of the economic and historical parameters causing deforestation in Guatemala

      • Ludger-Josef Loening, Hermann Sautter
      Pages 391-418
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Paderborn, Germany

    Michael Markussen

  • Institute for Production and Investment Department of Corporate Planning, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

    Ralph Buse

  • Institute for Forest Policy, Forest History and Nature Protection University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

    Heiko Garrelts

  • Valencia, Spain

    María A. Máñez Costa

  • Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

    Susanne Menzel, Rainer Marggraf

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Valuation and Conservation of Biodiversity

  • Book Subtitle: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Convention on Biological Diversity

  • Authors: Michael Markussen, Ralph Buse, Heiko Garrelts, María A. Máñez Costa, Susanne Menzel, Rainer Marggraf

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/b138669

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-24022-8Published: 13 January 2005

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-06313-8Published: 14 October 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-27138-3Published: 10 November 2005

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXX, 430

  • Topics: Biodiversity, Biogeosciences, Geography, general, Landscape Ecology, Geoecology/Natural Processes

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