1st Edition

The Economics of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

Edited By Shunsuke Managi Copyright 2013
256 Pages 66 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

256 Pages 66 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

256 Pages 66 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Ecosystems and biodiversity have been degraded over decades due to human activities. One of the critical causes is market failure: the current market only accounts tangible resources and neglects intangible functions, such as climate control and natural hazard mitigation. Under such circumstances in capitalism, land conversion and resource exploitation, which generate financial income, are highly... Read more

1. Sustainable Use of Ecosystem Services, Kei Kabaya and Shunsuke Managi  2. Convention of Biological Diversity and Other Initiatives to Worldwide Protection of Biological Diversity and Ecosystem Services, Tania Ray Bhattacharya and Shunsuke Managi  3. The Value of Biodiversity and Recreation Demand Models: A Spatial Kuhn-Tucker Model, Koichi Kuriyama, Yasushi Shoji and Takahiro Tsuge  4. Payment for Agricultural Ecosystem Services and Its Valuation, Kentaro Yoshida  5. Determinants of Happiness: Environmental Degradation and Attachment to Nature, Tetsuya Tsurumi, Kei Kuramashi, and Shunsuke Managi  6. Productivity Analysis on Ecosystems and Biodiversity, Kei Kabaya and Shunsuke Managi  7. Towards the Establishment of a PES Policy Framework, Seiji Ikkatai  8. Impact Assessment of Sustainable Forest Use Policy with the Economic Model, Satoshi Kojima and Kei Kabaya  9. Financing REDD-plus: A Review of Options and Challenges, Kimihiko Hyakumura and Henry Scheyvens  10. Evaluation of Offset Schemes with a Laboratory Experiment, Keisaku Higashida, Kenta Tanaka, and Shunsuke Managi  11. Project Portfolio Analysis on the Global Ecosystem Restoration, Kei Kabaya and Shunsuke Managi  12. Diversity on Fisheries: Price Volatilities in Japanese Market, Kentaka Aruga and Shunsuke Managi  13. Market Delineation among the Japanese Retail Fish Market, Kentaka Aruga and Shunsuke Managi  Conclusion. Towards Biodiversity Conservation, Shunsuke Managi and Kei Kabaya

Biography

Shunsuke Managi is Professor of Technology and Policy, School of Engineering at Kyushu University, Japan, while also holding position as IGES fellow at Institute for Global Environmental Strategies and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Tokyo. He is an editor of Environmental Economic and Policy Studies, a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and is the author of "Technology, Natural Resources and Economic Growth: Improving the Environment for a Greener Future" and editor of "The Routledge Handbook of Environmental Economics in Asia".