Does proactive biodiversity conservation save costs?

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1045-1055

  Drechsler, Martin ^a   Eppink, Florian V ^a   Wätzold, Frank ^b  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b BRANDENBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Common hamster; Conservation costs; Conservation management; Cost assessment; Proactive conservation

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; EXTINCTION RISK; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; POLICY MAKING; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RODENT; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

BADEN-WURTTEMBERG; GERMANY; MANNHEIM;

CRICETINAE; CRICETUS CRICETUS;

EID: 79955017153     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-011-0013-4     Document Type: Article

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