Name: Valuation and Conservation of Biodiversity
ISBN: 978-3-540-27138-3

Authors:

Michael Markussen ⁰,
Ralph Buse ¹,
Heiko Garrelts ²,
María A. Máñez Costa ³,
Susanne Menzel ⁴,
…
Rainer Marggraf ⁵

Michael Markussen
1. Paderborn, Germany
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Ralph Buse
1. Institute for Production and Investment Department of Corporate Planning, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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Heiko Garrelts
1. Institute for Forest Policy, Forest History and Nature Protection University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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María A. Máñez Costa
1. Valencia, Spain
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Susanne Menzel
1. Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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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)

Front Matter

Pages I-XXIX

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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
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
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

Keywords

CBD
Convention
Nature
Population
biodiversity
biological
bird
ecosystem
environment
forest
nature conservation
nitrogen

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, Landscape Ecology, Earth System Sciences

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

Front Matter

Global and general perspectives on the Convention on Biological Diversity

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

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

Keywords

Authors and Affiliations

Paderborn, Germany

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

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

Valencia, Spain

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

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