Biodiversity Conservation: Problems and Policies

1 Framing the Problem.- 1 Biodiversity conservation and economic development: the policy problem.- 2 Biodiversity conservation and economic development: local and global dimensions.- 2: Understanding Biodiversity Change.- 3 Population extinction and the biodiversity crisis.- 4 Diversity conservation in relation to fisheries in the Baltic Sea.- 5 Rangeland ecology: managing change in biodiversity.- 6 Biodiversity, natural resource accounting and environmental monitoring.- 3: The Valuation of Biodiversity.- 7 Modeling the value of biodiversity using a production function approach.- 8 Valuation of a marine resource.- 9 Tropical wetland values and environmental functions.- 10 Valuation and the management of biological diversity.- 4: The Impact of Economic Policy.- 11 Environmental impact of governmental policies and external shocks in Botswana: A computable general equilibrium model approach.- 12 A dynamic CGE model of deforestation in Costa Rica.- 13 The timber trade as a cause of tropical deforestation.- 14 Sustainable use of tropical forests in South-East Asia.- 5: Options and Priorities for Biodiversity Conservation.- 15 Traditional ecological knowledge, biodiversity, resilience and sustainability.- 16 Conservation of biodiversity and economic development: the concept of transferable development rights.- 17 Biodiversity conservation and local development aspirations: new priorities for the 1990s.- 18 Unresolved issues.- References.