The economics of biodiversity: The evolving agenda

Environment and Development Economics

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 721-746

  Perrings, Charles ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 79551477290     PISSN: 1355770X     EISSN: 14697998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1355770X10000343     Document Type: Article

References (114)

1. Allen, B.P. and J.B. Loomis (2006), 'Deriving values for the ecological support function of wildlife: An indirect valuation approach', Ecological Economics 56: 49-57.
2. Ansuategi, A. and C. Perrings (2000), 'Transboundary externalities in the environmental transition hypothesis', Environmental and Resource Economics 17: 353-373.
3. Balvanera, P., A.B. Pfisterer, N. Buchmann, J.-S. He, T. Nakashizuka, D. Raffaelli, D., and B. Schmid (2006), 'Quantifying the evidence for biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning and services', Ecology Letters 9: 1146-1156.
4. Barbier, E.B. (1994), 'Valuing environmental functions: Tropical wetlands', Land Economics 70: 155-173.
5. Barbier, E.B. (1997), 'Introduction to the environmental Kuznets curve special issue', Environment and Development Economics 2: 369-382.
6. Barbier, E.B. (2000), 'Valuing the environment as input: Review of applications to mangrove-fishery linkages', Ecological Economics 35: 47-61.
7. Barbier, E.B. (2007), 'Valuing ecosystem services as productive inputs', Economic Policy 22(49):178-229.
8. Barbier, E.B. (2008), 'Ecosystems as natural assets', Foundations and Trends in Microeconomics 4: 611-681.
9. Batabyal, A.A. (1998) 'An optimal stopping approach to the conservation of biodiversity', Ecological Modelling 105: 293-298.
10. Brock, W.A., A.P. Kinzig, and C. Perrings (2010), 'Modeling the economics of biodiversity and environmental heterogeneity', Environmental and Resource Economics 46: 43-58.
11. Brock, W.A. and A. Xepapadeas (2002), 'Biodiversity management under uncertainty: Species selection and harvesting rules', in B. Kristrom, P. Dasgupta, and K. Lofgren (eds), Economic Theory for the Environment: Essays in Honour of Karl- Goran Maler, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 62-97.
12. Cardinale, B.J., D.S. Srivastava, J.E. Duffy, J.P. Wright, A.L. Downing, M. Sankaran, and C. Jouseau (2006), 'Effects of biodiversity on the functioning of trophic groups and ecosystems', Nature 443: 989-992.
13. Cassey, P., T.M. Blackburn, G.J. Russel, K.E. Jones, and J.L. Lockwood (2004), 'Influences on the transport and establishment of exotic bird species: An analysis of the parrots (Psittaciformes) of the world', Global Change Biology 10: 417-426.
14. Clark, C.W., F.H. Clarke and G.R. Munro (1979), 'The optimal exploitation of renewable resource stocks: Problems of irreversible investment', Econometrica 47: 25-47.
15. Cole, M.A., A.J. Rayner, and J.M. Bates (1997), 'The environmental Kuznets curve: An empirical analysis', Environment and Development Economics 2: 401-416.
16. Convention on Biological Diversity (1993), United Nations Treaty Series, New York.
17. Costello, C., M. Springborn, C. McAusland, and A. Solow (2007), 'Unintended biological invasions: Does risk vary by trading partner?', Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 54: 262-276.
18. Dalmazzone, S. (2000), 'Economic factors affecting vulnerability to biological invasions', in C.W. Perrings, M. Williamson, and S. Dalmazzone (eds), The Economics of Biological Invasions, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 17-30.
19. Di Falco, S. and J.P. Chavas (2007), 'On the role of crop biodiversity in the management of environmental risk', in A. Kontoleon, U. Pascual, and T. Swanson (eds), Biodiversity Economics: Principles, Methods, and Applications, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 581-593.
20. Di Falco, S. and C. Perrings (2003), 'Crop genetic diversity, productivity and stability of agroecosystems. A theoretical and empirical investigation', Scottish Journal of Political Economy 50: 207-216.
21. Di Falco, S. and C. Perrings (2005), 'Crop biodiversity, risk management and the implications of agricultural assistance', Ecological Economics 55: 459-466.
22. Díaz, S., S. Lavorel, F.D. Bello, F. Quétier, K. Grigulis, and T.M. Robson (2007), 'Incorporating plant functional diversity effects in ecosystem service assessments', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 104: 20684-20689.
23. Dietz, S. and N. Adger (2003), 'Economic growth, biodiversity loss and conservation effort', Journal of Environmental Management 68: 23-35.
24. Doak, D.F., D. Digger, E. Harding-Smith, M.A. Marvier, R. O'Malley, and D. Thomson (1998), 'The statistical inevitability of stability-diversity relationships in community ecology', American Naturalist 151: 264-276.
25. Eichner, T. and R. Pethig (2005), 'Ecosystem and economy: An integrated dynamic general equilibrium approach', Journal of Economics 85: 213-249.
26. Eichner, T. and J. Tschirhart (2007), 'Efficient ecosystem services and naturalness in an ecological economic model', Environmental and Resource Economics 37: 733-755.
27. Eisworth, M.E. and W.S. Johnson (2002), 'Managing nonindigenous invasive species: Insights fromdynamic analysis', Environmental and Resource Economics 23: 319-342.
28. Engel, S., S. Pagiola, and S.Wunder (2008), 'Designing payments for environmental services in theory and practice: An overview of the issues', Ecological Economics 65: 663-674.
29. Fevre, E.M., B. Bronsvoort, K.A. Hamilton, and S. Cleaveland (2006), 'Animal movements and the spread of infectious diseases', Trends in Microbiology 14: 125-131.
30. Finnoff, D. and J. Tschirhart (2003a), 'Harvesting in an eight species ecosystem', Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 45: 589-611.
31. Finnoff, D. and J. Tschirhart (2003b), 'Protecting an endangered species while harvesting its prey in a general equilibrium ecosystem model', Land Economics 79: 160-180.
32. Finnoff, D. and J. Tschirhart (2005), 'Identifying, preventing, and controlling successful invasive plant species using their phsyiological traits', Ecological Economics 52: 397-416.
33. Finnoff, D. and J. Tschirhart (2007), 'Linking dynamic economic and ecological general equilibrim models', University of Wyoming Department of Economics, Wyoming.
34. Gersovitz, M. and J.S. Hammer (2003), 'Infectious diseases, public policy, and the marriage of economics and epidemiology', The World Bank Research Observer 18: 129-157.
35. Gersovitz, M. and J.S. Hammer (2004), 'The economical control of infectious diseases', The Economic Journal 114: 1-27.
36. Ginsberg, J., M. Mohebbi, R. Patel, L. Brammer, M. Smolinski, and L. Brilliant (2009), 'Detecting influenza epidemics using search engine query data', Nature 457: 1012-1014.
37. Griffin, J.N., E.J. O'Gorman, M.C. Emmerson, S.R. Jenkins, A.-M. Klein, M. Loreau, and A. Symstad (2009), 'Biodiversity and the stability of ecosystem functioning', in D.B.S. Naeem, A. Hector, M. Loreau, and C. Perrings (eds), Biodiversity, Ecosystem Functioning, and Human Wellbeing: An Ecological and Economic Perspective, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 78-93.
38. Guan, Y., B.J. Zheng, Y.Q.He, X.L. Liu, Z.X. Zhuang,C.L.Cheung, S.W. Luo, P.H. Li, L.J. Zhang, Y.J. Guan, K.M. Butt, K.L.Wong, K.W. Chan,W. Lim, K.F. Shortridge, K.Y. Yuen, J.S.M. Peiris, and L.L.M. Poon (2003), 'Isolation and characterization of viruses related to the SARS coronavirus from animals in Southern China', Science 302: 276-278.
39. Hector, A. and R. Bagchi (2007), 'Biodiversity and ecosystem multifunctionality', Nature 448: 188-190.
40. Hooper, D.U., F.S.I. Chapin, J.J. Ewel, A. Hector, P. Inchausti, S. Lavorel, J.H. Lawton, D.M. Lodge,M. Loreau, S. Naeem, B. Schmid,H. Setälä,H., A.J. Symstad, J. Vandermeer, and D.A. Wardle (2005), 'Effects of biodiversity on ecosystem functioning: A consensus of current knowledge', Ecological Monographs 75: 3-35.
41. Horan, R.D., C. Perrings, F. Lupi, and E.H. Bulte (2002), 'Biological pollution prevention strategies under ignorance: The case of invasive species', American Journal of Agricultural Economics 84: 1303-1310.
42. Horan, R., J.F. Shogren, and B. Gramig (2008), 'Wildlife conservation payments to address habitat fragmentation and disease risk', Environment and Development Economics 13: 415-439.
43. Horan, R. and C. Wolf (2005), 'The economics of managing infectious wildlife disease', American Journal of Agricultural Economics 87: 537-551.
44. Jackson, L.E., U. Pascual, L. Brussaard, P. De Ruiter, and K.S. Bawa (2007), 'Biodiversity in agricultural landscapes: Investing without losing interest', Agriculture Ecosystems and Environment 121: 193-195.
45. Johannesen, A.B. (2006), 'Designing integrated conservation and development projects (ICDPs): Illegal hunting, wildlife conservation, and the welfare of the local people', Environment and Development Economics 11: 247-267.
46. Johannesen, A.B. and A. Skonhoft (2005) 'Tourism, poaching and wildlife conservation: What can integrated conservation and development projects accomplish?', Resource and Energy Economics 27: 208-226.
47. Karesh, W., R.A. Cook, E.L. Bennett, and J. Newcomb (2005), 'Wildlife trade and global disease emergence', Emerging Infectious Diseases 11: 1000-1002.
48. Kilpatrick, A.M., A.A. Chmura, D.W. Gibbons, R.C. Fleischer, P.P. Marra, and P. Daszak (2006), 'Predicting the global spread of H5N1 avian influenza', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 103: 19368-19373.
49. Kim, S., J. Tschirhart, and S. Buskirk (2007), 'Reconstructing past population processes with general equilibrium models: House mice in Kern County, California, 1926-1927', Ecological Modelling, 209: 235-248.
50. Lanciotti, R.S., J.T. Roehrig, V. Deubel, J. Smith, M. Parker, K. Steele, B. Crise, K.E. Volpe, M.B. Crabtree, J.H. Scherret, R.A. Hall, J.S. Mackenzie, C.B. Cropp, B. Panigrahy, E. Ostlund, B. Schmitt, M. Malkinson, C. Banet, J. Weissman, N.Komar, H.M. Savage,W. Stone, T. Mcnamara, T., and D.J. Gubler (1999), 'Origin of the West Nile virus responsible for an outbreak of encephalitis in the northeastern United States', Science 286: 2333-2337.
51. Lavorel, S. and E. Garnier (2002) 'Predicting changes in community composition and ecosystem functioning from plant traits: Revisiting the Holy Grail', Functional Ecology 16: 545-556.
52. Leung, B., D.M. Lodge, D. Finnoff, J.F. Shogren,M.A. Lewis, and G. Lamberti (2002), 'An ounce of prevention or a pound of cure: Bioeconomic risk analysis of invasive species', Royal Society of London, Biological Sciences 269: 2407-2413.
53. Levine, J.M. and C.M. D'antonio (2003), 'Forecasting biological invasions with increasing international trade', Conservation Biology 17: 322-326.
54. Loreau,M., S. Naeem, and P. Inchausti (2002), Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning: Synthesis and Perspectives, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
55. Lovell, S.J., S.F. Stone, and L. Fernandez (2006), 'The economic impacts of aquatic invasive species: A review of the literature', Review of Agricultural and Resource Economics 35: 195-208.
56. Majumder, P., R.P. Berrens, and A.K. Bohara (2006), 'Is there an Environmental Kuznets Curve for the risk of biodiversity loss?', The Journal of Developing Areas 39: 175-190.
57. Mäler, K.-G. (1974), Environmental Economics: A Theoretical Inquiry, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press.
58. Markandya, A. (2000), 'Poverty, Environment and Development', in H. Folmer, H.L. Gabel, S. Gerking, and A. Rose (eds), Frontiers of Environmental Economics, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
59. McNaughton, S.J. (1977), 'Diversity and stability of ecological communities: A comment on the role of empiricism in ecology', American Naturalist 111: 515-525.
60. McNeely, J.A. (2001), 'An introduction to human dimensions of invasive alien species', in J.A. McNeely (ed.), The Great Reshuffling. Human Dimensions of Invasive Alien Species, Gland: IUCN, pp. 5-20.
61. Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (2005), Ecosystems and HumanWell-being: General Synthesis, Washington, DC: Island Press.
62. Mills, J.H. and T.A. Waite (2009), 'Economic prosperity, biodiversity conservation, and the environmental Kuznets curve', Ecological Economics 68: 2087-2095.
63. Murray, J.D. (2002) Mathematical Biology, NewYork: Springer.
64. Naeem, S. (1998), 'Species redundancy and ecosystem reliability', Conservation Biology 12: 39-45.
65. Naeem, S., D. Bunker, A. Hector, M. Loreau, and C. Perrings (2009), Biodiversity, Ecosystem Functioning, and Human Wellbeing: An Ecological and Economic Perspective, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
66. Naeem, S. and S. Li (1997), 'Biodiversity enhances ecosystem reliability', Nature 390: 507-509.
67. Nelson, E., G. Mendoza, J. Regetz, S. Polasky, H. Tallis, D.R. Cameron, K.M.A. Chan, G.C. Daily, J. Goldstein, P.M. Kareiva, E. Lonsdorf, R. Naidoo, T.H. Ricketts, and M.R. Shaw (2009), 'Modeling multiple ecosystem services, biodiversity conservation, commodity production, and tradeoffs at landscape scales', Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 7: 4-11.
68. Nelson, E., S. Polasky, D.J. Lewis, A J. Plantinga, E. Lonsdorf, D.White, D. Bael, and J.J. Lawler (2008), 'Efficiency of incentives to jointly increase carbon sequestration and species conservation on a landscape', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 105: 9471-9476.
69. Norberg, J., D.P. Swaney, J. Dushoff, J. Lin, R. Casagrandi, and S.A. Levin (2001), 'Phenotypic diversity and ecosystem functioning in changing environments: A theoretical framework', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 98: 11376-11381.
70. Norton-Griffiths, M. (2000), 'Wildlife losses in Kenya: An analysis of conservation policy', Natural Resource Modeling 13: 13-34.
71. Norton-Griffiths, M. and C. Southey (1995), 'The opportunity costs of biodiversity conservation in Kenya', Ecological Economics 12: 125-139.
72. Nuno,M.G., G. Chowell, and A.B. Gurnel (2007), 'Assessing the role of basic control measures, antivirals and vaccine in curtailing pandemic influenza: Scenarios for the US, UK and the Netherlands',Journal of the Royal Society Interface 4: 505-521.
73. O'Connor, D. (2008), 'Governing the global commons: Linking carbon sequestration and biodiversity conservation in tropical forests', Global Environmental Change 18: 368-374.
74. Olson, L.J. (2006), 'The economics of terrestrial invasive species: A review of the literature', Review of Agricultural and Resource Economics 35: 178-194.
75. Olson, L.J. and S. Roy (2002), 'The economics of controlling a stochastic biological invasion', American Journal of Agricultural Economics 84: 1311-1316.
76. Olson, L.J. and S. Roy (2005), 'On prevention and control of an uncertain biological invasion', Review of Agricultural Economics 27: 491-497.
77. Pacala, S. and D. Tilman (1994), 'Limiting similarity in mechanistic and spatial models of plant competition in heterogeneous environments', The American Naturalist 143: 222-257.
78. Pavlin, B., L.M. Schloegel, and P. Daszak (2009), 'Risk of importing zoonotic diseases through wildlife trade, United States', Emerging Infectious Disease 15: 1721-1726.
79. Perrings, C., K. Dehnen-Schmutz, J. Touza, and M. Williamson, M. (2005), 'How to manage biological invasions under globalization', Trends in Ecology and Evolution 20: 212-215.
80. Perrings, C., E. Fenichel, and A. Kinzig, A. (2010), 'Externalities of globalization: Bioinvasions and trade', in C. Perrings, H. Mooney, and M. Williamson (eds), Bioinvasions and Globalization: Ecology, Economics, Management and Policy, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
81. Perrings, C., C. Folke, and K.-G. Maler (1992), 'The Ecology and Economics of Biodiversity Loss-the Research Agenda', Ambio 21: 201-211.
82. Perrings, C. and M. Gadgil (2003), 'Conserving biodiversity: Reconciling local and global public benefits', in I. Kaul, P. Conceicao, K. Le Goulven, and R.L.Mendoza, Providing Global Public Goods: Managing Globalization, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 532-555.
83. Perrings, C. and G. Halkos (2010), 'Biodiversity loss and income growth in poor countries: The evidence', ecoServices Working Paper, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.
84. Perrings, C. and B. Walker (1997), 'Biodiversity, resilience and the control of ecological-economic systems: The case of fire-driven rangelands', Ecological Economics 22: 73-83.
85. Perrings, C. and B.H.Walker (2005), 'Conservation in the optimal use of rangelands', Ecological Economics 49: 119-128.
86. Pimentel, D., S. Mcnair, S. Janecka, J. Wightman, C. Simmonds, C. O'Connell, E. Wong, L. Russel, C. Zern, T. Aquino, and T. Tsomondo (2001), 'Economic and environmental threats of alien plant, animal and microbe invasions', Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 84: 1-20.
87. Polasky, S. (2010), 'A model of prevention, detection, and control for invasive species', in C. Perrings, H. Mooney, and M. Williamson (eds), Globalization and Bioinvasions: Ecology, Economics, Management and Policy, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 100-109.
88. Polasky, S., E. Nelson, J. Camm, B. Csuti, P. Fackler, E. Lonsdorf, C.Montgomery, D. White, J. Arthur, B. Garber-Yonts, R. Haight, J. Kagan,A. Starfield, and C. Tobalske (2008), 'Where to put things? Spatial landmanagement to sustain biodiversity and economic returns', Biological Conservation 141: 1505-1524.
89. Pratt, J.W. (1964), 'Risk aversion in the small and in the large', Econometrica 32: 122-136.
90. Rweyemamu, M.M. and V.M. Astudillo (2002), 'Global perspective for foot and mouth disease control', Revue Scientifique Et Technique De L Office International Des Epizooties 21: 765-773.
91. Sachs, J.D., J.E.M. Baillie, W.J. Sutherland, P.R. Armsworth, N. Ash, J. Beddington, T.M. Blackburn, B. Collen, B. Gardiner, K.J. Gaston, H.C.J. Godfray, R.E. Green, P.H. Harvey, B. House, S. Knapp, N.F. Kumpel, D.W. Macdonald, G.M. Mace, J.Mallet, A. Matthews, R.M. May, O. Petchey, A. Purvis, D. Roe, K. Safi, K. Turner, M. Walpole, R. Watson, and K.E. Jones (2009), 'Biodiversity conservation and the millennium development goals', Science 325: 1502-1503.
92. Sandler, T. (2004), Global Collective Action, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
93. Semmens, B.X., E.R. Buhle, A.K. Salomon, and C.V. Pattengill-Semmens (2004), 'A hotspot of non-native marine fishes: Evidence for the aquarium trade as an invasion pathway', Marine Ecology Progress Series 266: 239-244.
94. Sharov, A.A., D. Leonard, A.M. Liebhold, and N.S. Clemens (2002), 'Evaluation of preventive treatments in low-density gypsy moth populations using pheromone traps', Journal of Economic Entomology 95: 1205-1215.
95. Sharov, A.A., A.M. Liebhold, and E.A. Roberts (1998), 'Optimizing the use of barrier zones to slow the spread of gypsy moth (Lepidoptera : Lymantriidae) in North America', Journal of Economic Entomology 91: 165-174.
96. Smale, M., J.Hartell, P.W. Heisey, and B. Senauer (1998), 'The contribution of genetic resources and diversity to wheat production in the Punjab of Pakistan', American Journal of Agricultural Economics 80: 482-493.
97. Smith, K.F. (2008), 'U.S. regulation of live animal trade', Invited, Trade and Biological Resources News Digest. A publication of the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development 3: 6-7.
98. Smith, K.F., M. Behrens, L.M. Schloegel, N. Marano, S. Burgiel, and P. Daszak (2009a), 'Reducing the risks of the wildlife trade', Science 324: 594-595.
99. Smith, R.D., M.R. Keogh-Brown, A. Barnett, and J. Tait (2009b), 'The economywide impact of pandemic influenza on the UK: A computable general equilibrium modelling experiment', British Medical Journal, 339: B4571.
100. Stern, D.I. (1998), 'Progress on the Environmental Kuznets Curve', Environment and Development Economics 3: 381-394.
101. Stern, D.I. (2004), 'The rise and fall of the Environmental Kuznets Curve', World Development 32: 1419-1439.
102. Stern, D.I. and M.S. Common (2001), 'Is there an Environmental Kuznets Curve for sulphur?', Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 41: 162-178.
103. Sumner, D.A., J.E. Bervejillo, and L.S. Jarvis (2005), 'Public policy, invasive species and animal disease management',International Food and Agribusiness Management Review 8: 78-97.
104. Tatem, A.J., S.S. Hay, and D.J. Rogers (2006), 'Global traffic and disease vector dispersal', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103: 6242-6247.
105. TEEB (2009), TEEB Climate Issues Update, UNEP, Nairobi.
106. Thebault, E. and M. Loreau (2006), 'The relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in food webs', Ecological Research 21: 17-25.
107. Tilman, D. (1982), Resource Competition and Community Structure, Princeton: Princeton University Press.
108. Tilman, D. (1988), Plant Strategies and the Dynamics and Structure of Plant Communities, Princeton: Princeton University Press.
109. Tilman, D., C.L. Lehman, and C.E. Bristow (1998), 'Diversity-stability relationships: Statistical inevitability or ecological consequence?', American Naturalist 151: 277-282.
110. Tilman, D., R.M. May, S. Polasky, and C.L. Lehman (2005), 'Diversity, productivity and temporal stability in the economies of humans and nature', Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 49: 405-426.
111. Vila, M. and J. Pujadas (2001), 'Land-use and socio-economic correlates of plant invasions in European and North African countries', Biological Conservation 100: 397-401.
112. Vitousek, P.M. and D.U. Hooper (1993), 'Biological diversity and terrestrial ecosystem biogeochemistry', in E.-D. Schulze, andH.A.Mooney (eds), Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function, Berlin: Springer-Verlag, pp. 3-14.
113. Wells, M. (1992), 'Biodiversity conservation, affluence and poverty: Mismatched costs and benefits and efforts to remedy them', Ambio 21: 237-243.
114. World Commission on Environment and Development (1987), Our Common Future, Washington, DC: Island Press.