Can We Afford to Conserve Biodiversity?

By Alexander N. James, Kevin J. Gaston, A. Balmford. 2001

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Global and Planetary Change, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

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Ongoing global biodiversity loss and the need to move beyond protected areas: a review of the technical and practical shortcomings of protected areas on land and sea (2011, background): “One problem with this argument is that most subsidies are provided in developed nations, while those most in need of conservation funding are in developing countries (James et al. 2001).”
Setting Conservation Priorities (2009, background): “…of Queensland, School of Biological Sciences, St. Lucia Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia. k.wilson2@uq.edu.au other societal priorities, such as food production, human habitation, and resource extraction (Abbitt et al. 2000; James et al. 2001; Balmford et al. 2004; Naidoo and Iwamura 2007).”
Financial Costs and Shortfalls of Managing and Expanding Protected-Area Systems in Developing Countries (2004, background): “Thousands of protected areas in the developing world currently suffer an extreme funding deficit (James et al. 1999, 2001, Wilkie et al. 2001), and many areas have no budget at all (IUCN 1999).”
Show Me the Money: Do Payments Supply Environmental Services in Developing Countries? (2010, background): “Despite the billions of dollars invested in stemming the global loss of native ecosystems (James et al. 2001; Hardner and Rice 2002), ecosystem degradation continues (Achard et al. 2002; Balmford et al. 2002).”
Who should pay for tropical conservation, and how could the costs be met? (2003, unknown): “…areas are deteriorating of magnitude more than the c. $750 million currently spent by all agencies combined on meeting their direct (van Schaik et al ., 1997; Brandon et al ., 1998; Oates, 1999; Terborgh, 1999; Terborgh et al ., 2002), and reserve costs (James et al ., 1999a, 2001; Table 1).”
Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Methods to Evaluate Participation in Costa Rica's Program of Payments for Environmental Services (2009, background): “In fact, deforestation, mainly conversion of forests to agricultural land, continues at an alarmingly high rate—about 13 million hectares per year ( Food and Agriculture Organization [FAO], 2005 ) despite billions of dollars having been invested in conservation worldwide ( James, Gaston, & Balmford,”
Energy, species richness, and human population size: conservation implications at a national scale (2003, background): “Ecological Applications Vol. 13, No. 5 could be undertaken (McNeely 1994, James et al. 2001).”
How many bird extinctions have we prevented? (2006, background): “For example, based on figures from the mid 1990s, James et al. (2001) estimated that USD 6 billion is spent annually on management of protected areas alone.”
Understanding the Motivations and Satisfactions of Volunteers to Improve the Effectiveness of Citizen Science Programs (2015, background): “…an ever-increasing recognition by stakeholders of the importance of efficiently utilizing the limited resources available to conservation programs (James, Gaston, and Balmford 2001; Ferraro and Pattanayak 2006), and for the effectiveness of conservation instruments, incentives, and institutions…”
The Efficiency of Payments for Environmental Services in Tropical Conservation (2007, background): “The lack of willingness to pay for environmental services is dealt with elsewhere (James et al. 2001; Balmford & Whitten 2003), so I did not address this obstacle.”