Economics and planning of biodiversity conservation under uncertainty and climate change

TY - CHAP

T1 - Economics and planning of biodiversity conservation under uncertainty and climate change

AU - Strange, Niels

AU - Jacobsen, Jette Bredahl

AU - Nogues, David Bravo

AU - Lundhede, Thomas

AU - Rahbek, Carsten

AU - Thorsen, Bo Jellesmark

PY - 2014/1/1

Y1 - 2014/1/1

N2 - This chapter discusses the need for biologically and economically well-reasoned conservation decisions in a dynamic world, and stresses the potential insights gained using sound and theoretically consistent approaches combining biodiversity, valuation and decision modelling under uncertainty. Recent research on the potential long-term influence of climate change on biodiversity distributions and persistence is revisited. Environmental valuation may provide insight into how this may affect human well-being. The methodological challenges of measuring how society values biodiversity effects under climate change and the inherent scarcity and uncertainty are discussed. This indeed imposes changes in conservation priorities and the chapter illustrates and discusses adaptive management and the value of flexibility. The chapter concludes with an address to the need for geopolitical coordination of conservation efforts to halt the decline of biodiversity under climate change.

AB - This chapter discusses the need for biologically and economically well-reasoned conservation decisions in a dynamic world, and stresses the potential insights gained using sound and theoretically consistent approaches combining biodiversity, valuation and decision modelling under uncertainty. Recent research on the potential long-term influence of climate change on biodiversity distributions and persistence is revisited. Environmental valuation may provide insight into how this may affect human well-being. The methodological challenges of measuring how society values biodiversity effects under climate change and the inherent scarcity and uncertainty are discussed. This indeed imposes changes in conservation priorities and the chapter illustrates and discusses adaptive management and the value of flexibility. The chapter concludes with an address to the need for geopolitical coordination of conservation efforts to halt the decline of biodiversity under climate change.

M3 - Book chapter

SN - 978-0-415-62324-7

SN - 978-0-203-10529-0

SP - 353

EP - 368

BT - Handbook of Forest Resource Economics

A2 - Kant, Shashi

A2 - Alavalapati, Janaki R.R.

PB - Routledge

CY - New York

ER -