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Markets for Biodiversity

In: Protecting the Environment, Privately

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Along with climate change, the continuing loss of the earth's biological diversity ( biodiversity) is a major contemporary environmental concern (Barnosky et al., 2011; Wilson, 2013). At the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, the world's governments established the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) to address this issue at a global level. The text of the CBD provides a definition of biodiversity that includes diversity within species, between species, and of ecosystems, thereby broadening the scope of previously narrower concerns relating to species conservation and protected areas…

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  • Michael't Sas-Rolfes, 2015. "Markets for Biodiversity," World Scientific Book Chapters, in: Jeffrey Bennett (ed.), Protecting the Environment, Privately, chapter 5, pages 89-112, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd..
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