Abstract
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.
| Translated title of the contribution | Economics and planning of biodiversity conservation under uncertainty and climate change |
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| Original language | English |
| Title of host publication | Handbook of Forest Resource Economics |
| Editors | Shashi Kant, Janaki R.R. Alavalapati |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| Place of Publication | New York |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Publication date | 1 Jan 2014 |
| Pages | 353-368 |
| Chapter | 23 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-0-415-62324-7, 978-0-203-10529-0 |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 2014 |
