Biodiversity in the balance : land use, national development, and global welfare / Raffaello Cervigni.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cervigni, Raffaello.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Land use, Rural--Environmental aspects--Developing countries.

Land use, Rural.

Land use, Rural--Economic aspects--Developing countries.

Urbanization--Developing countries.

Urbanization.

Ecosystem management.

Biodiversity conservation.

Land use, Rural--Economic aspects.

Land use, Rural--Environmental aspects.

Developing countries.

Biodiversity conservation--Developing countries.

Ecosystem management--Developing countries.

Sustainable development--Developing countries.

Sustainable development.

Physical Description:

xix, 271 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, [2001]

Contents:

1. Biodiversity conservation and loss: the background 3

1.1 The biodiversity problem 5

1.2 Defining diversity and loss 7

1.3 Biodiversity and human well-being 15

1.4 Economic activity and biodiversity loss 23

Part II. Theoretical Issues

2. Land use change, biodiversity loss, and economic analysis 35

2.1 Land conversion and biodiversity loss 35

2.2 Land conversion: a conceptual framework 39

2.3 Interventions to alter the incentives to land conversion 44

2.4 Conclusion: land use change in theory and in practice 52

Annex 2.1 Increasing rents from conservation compatible activities 55

3. Financing conservation: theoretical aspects 61

3.1 Biodiversity and incremental cost: a simple model 63

3.2 Some results using particular functional forms 78

Annex 3.1 Deriving [alpha] and [beta] 86

Annex 3.2 Solutions of the model when utility is multiplicative 88

Part III. Biodiversity Loss and Conservation in Practice: A Case Study in Mexico

4. The area: Sierra de Santa Marta, Veracruz, Mexico 95

4.1 Location and physical description 95

4.2 Biodiversity relevance 102

4.3 The socio-economic environment 106

Annex 4.1 Background on Mexico's land tenure system 125

5. The process of land use change: modelling farm behaviour 129

5.1 The past: overview of the process of land use change 129

5.2 The present 138

5.3 Prospects for the future: modelling farm-level decisions 142

Annex 5.1 Conceptual background of the linear programming models 160

Annex 5.2 Deriving "corrected" profit margins 167

Annex 5.3 Parameter selection 168

Annex 5.4 Existing farms with land constraints 172

6. Land use changes: model predictions and policy design 181

6.1 A model for aggregating farm decisions over space and time 181

6.2 Results 189

6.3 Policy implications 196

Annex 6.1 The complete stock and flow model 207

Annex 6.2 Estimating the demand for temporary work 226

Annex 6.3 The income elasticity of cattle number demand 227

Annex 6.4 Pasture rotation 228.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-268) and index.

ISBN:

1840643455

OCLC:

47738273