TY - BOOK ID - 280808 TI - Biodiversity economics AU - Kontoleon, Andreas AU - Pascual, Unai AU - Swanson, Timothy M. PY - 2007 SN - 9780521866835 9780511551079 9780521154659 9780511534249 0511534248 9780511532405 0511532407 0521866839 1107179009 1283331004 0511533934 9786613331007 051155107X 0511531494 0511533314 0521154650 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Nature protection KW - Environmental protection. Environmental technology KW - Economics KW - Biodiversity conservation KW - Economic aspects. KW - Business, Economy and Management UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:280808 AB - Human induced biodiversity loss is greater now than at any time in human history, with extinctions occurring at rates hundreds of times higher than background extinction levels. The field of biodiversity economics analyses the socio-economic causes of and solutions to biodiversity loss by combining the disciplines of economics, ecology and biology. This field has shown a remarkable degree of transformation over the past four decades and now incorporates the analysis of the entire diversity of biological resources within the living world. Biodiversity Economics presents a series of papers that show how bio-economic analysis can be applied to the examination and evaluation of the problem of various forms of biodiversity loss. Containing insightful bio-economic research by some of prominent practitioners in the field, this volume will be an essential research tool to those working on biodiversity issues in the academic, policy and private sectors. ER -