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Biodiversity and Economics for Conservation (BIOECON) is a European Union (EU) funded project designed to advance economic theory and policy for biodiversity conservation, including the design and implementation of incentive measures.
Subject: Economics, Trade and Incentive Measures
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The UNCTAD Biotrade Initiative, launched in 1996, has established a number of partnerships with national and regional organizations with the aim of enhancing the capability of developing countries to produce value-added products and services derived from biodiversity, for both domestic and international markets.
Subject: Economics, Trade and Incentive Measures
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The UNCTAD Biotrade Initiative, launched in 1996, has established a number of partnerships with national and regional organizations with the aim of enhancing the capability of developing countries to produce value-added products and services derived from biodiversity, for both domestic and international markets.
Subject: Economics, Trade and Incentive Measures
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CI applies innovations in science, economics, policy and community participation to protect the Earth's richest regions of plant and animal diversity in the hotspots, major tropical wilderness areas and key marine ecosystems. With headquarters in Washington, D.C., CI works in more than 30 countries on four continents
Subjects: Marine and Coastal Biodiversity; Global Taxonomy Initiative; Protected Areas / In-Situ Conservation; Economics, Trade and Incentive Measures
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This website of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) provides information on their activities on economic incentives and trade policy.
Subject: Economics, Trade and Incentive Measures
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This website of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) provides information on their activities on economic incentives and trade policy.
Subject: Economics, Trade and Incentive Measures
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The Doha Development Agenda Trade Capacity Building Database (TCBDB) has been established by the WTO jointly with the OECD to provide information on trade-related technical assistance and capacity building projects, including on projects thaty address trade and environment issues. At present, the period of coverage is 2001, 2002 and partial 2003
Subject: Economics, Trade and Incentive Measures
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Recent activities of the Economics and Trade Branch of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP/ETB) have a strong focus on the interrelationship between international trade and the agricultural sector.
Subjects: Agricultural Biodiversity; Economics, Trade and Incentive Measures
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This site is designed and written by Dennis King (University of Maryland) and Marisa Mazzotta (University of Rhode Island), and funded by the US Department of Agriculture, the Natural Resources Conservation Service and the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration. It provides a clear, non-technical explanation of ecosystem valuation concepts, methods and applications, thus providing answers to questions about the benefits of ecosystem conservation, preservation and restoration
Subject: Economics, Trade and Incentive Measures
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ENVALUE is a searchable Environmental Valuation Database provided by the Environmental Protection Agency of the government of New South Wales, Australia. It is accessible to anyone (i.e. no subscription or password required) and is free of charge. It may also be available in diskette form for a fee.
Subject: Economics, Trade and Incentive Measures
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The economic programme of the Global Invasive Species Programme (GISP) provides a bibliography, key documents and relevant links.
Subjects: Invasive Alien Species; Economics, Trade and Incentive Measures
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The biodiversity programme of the International Environmental Law Research Centre (IELRC) attaches significant importance to the development of property rights regimes over biological resources at the local, national and international levels.
Subject: Economics, Trade and Incentive Measures
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The biodiversity programme of the International Environmental Law Research Centre (IELRC) attaches significant importance to the development of property rights regimes over biological resources at the local, national and international levels.
Subject: Economics, Trade and Incentive Measures
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The Environmental Economics Programme of the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) includes work on biodiversity-related issues. The site presents recent research projects and publications.
Subject: Economics, Trade and Incentive Measures
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The Instruments for Change Programme of the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) hosts an on-line collection of case studies on the use of economic instruments in environmental policy, including biodiversity conservation and sustainable use cases.
Subject: Economics, Trade and Incentive Measures
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The work of the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) on trade, investment and sustainable development, including access to the UNEP/IISD Environment and Trade: A Handbook.
Subject: Economics, Trade and Incentive Measures
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The webpage of the International Livestock Research Institute provides access to online information and publications on its work on the economics of conservation and sustainable use of animal genetic resources, including on valuation
Subject: Economics, Trade and Incentive Measures
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The webpage of IUCN's Sustainable Use Specialist Group contains documents adressing the intricate relationship between the use of economic incentives and the sustainable use of biodiversity.
Subjects: Economics, Trade and Incentive Measures; Sustainable Use of Biodiversity
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The IUCN Forest Conservation Programme (IUCN/FCP) has a research focus on economic incentives, including perverse subsidies, and economic valuation in regard to forest ecosystems.
Subject: Economics, Trade and Incentive Measures
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The IUCN Forest Conservation Programme (IUCN/FCP) has a research focus on economic incentives, including perverse subsidies, and economic valuation in regard to forest ecosystems.
Subject: Economics, Trade and Incentive Measures
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IUCN's Biodiversity and Trade Collection: Documents and links on biodiversity issues and their interrelationship with international trade.
Subject: Economics, Trade and Incentive Measures
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IUCN's Biodiversity Economics Library is an excellent entry point, offering collections of online documents and links on business, finance, incentives, trade, assessment and valuation.
Subject: Economics, Trade and Incentive Measures
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IUCN's Biodiversity Valuation Library: A collection of documents and links on economic valuation of biodiversity and green accounting.
Subject: Economics, Trade and Incentive Measures
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The library of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands contains information on the sustainable or "wise" use of wetlands and the economic valuation of wetlands, including the handbook "Economic Valuation of Wetlands: a Guide for Policy-Makers and Planners" (also in French and Spanish).
Subjects: Inland Waters Biodiversity; Economics, Trade and Incentive Measures
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The webpage of the Namibian Directorate of Environmental Affairs (DEA) provides access to its Discussion Paper series and to other downloadable policy documents, that provide useful information on the role of incentive measures, in particular, on the role of land use rights, the role of tourism markets and on the use of incentives in wildlife management
Subject: Economics, Trade and Incentive Measures
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The OECD plays a prominent role in helping governments to ensure the responsiveness of key economic areas with sectoral monitoring
Subject: Economics, Trade and Incentive Measures
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The Programme Promotion and Development of Non-wood Forest Products (NWFP) of the FAO Forestry Department presents a vareity of documents on the role of non-wood forest products in sustainable forestry.
Subjects: Forest Biodiversity; Economics, Trade and Incentive Measures
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The library of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands contains information on the sustainable or “wise” use of wetlands.
Subject: Economics, Trade and Incentive Measures
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Resources for the Future’s Library on biodiversity presents summaries of research projects and a collection of publications on economic aspects of biodiversity management.
Subject: Economics, Trade and Incentive Measures
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The proceedings share the results of a workshop: Incentive Measures for Sustainable Use and Conservation of Agrobiodiversity
dealing with identification on incentive measures to enhance the sustainable use and conservation of agrobiodiversity (Experiences and Lessons from Southern Africa)
Subjects: Agricultural Biodiversity; Economics, Trade and Incentive Measures
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