Conserving what, where and how? Cost-efficient measures to conserve biodiversity in Denmark

Disentangling Distance and Country Effects on the Value of Conservation across National Borders

“…Respondents were informed that, across the broadleaved forests in the three regions, one could find around 10,000 species in total. Based on the literature (Petersen et al, 2016(Petersen et al, , 2012 and data from the global biodiversity facility (GBIF: The Global Biodiversity Information Facility, 2017a) on species diversity and conservation the number of species in Denmark was assumed to be approximately 35,000 6 . Of these, around 65 per cent can be found in broadleaf dominated forests, which are the climax ecosystem in much of the regions area.…”

“…Thus, our results add further to the findings and discussions of Perrings and Halkos (2012), who suggested that the optimal level of biodiversity conservation might be expected to vary depending on the spatial scale at which the problem is analysed, and depending on which (national) groups are involved in conservation decisions. We do not engage in specific cost benefit analyses here, but note that previous studies have shown that the opportunity cost of setting aside forest for biodiversity protection (using capital budgeting approaches) is in the range of 200-400€ per ha and year (Jacobsen et al, 2013;Petersen et al, 2016). Another Danish study (Danish Economic Councils, 2012) found that the cost of protecting Danish forest habitats is less than € 7 million annually, or less than €3 per household per year, and hence significantly lower than the WTP measures estimated in the current study, as well as in similar studies (Jacobsen et al, 2008).…”

Climate Change and the Cost-Effective Governance Mode for Biodiversity Conservation

“…A growing field of research hence focuses on the cost-effectiveness analysis of biodiversity conservation policies (Ansell et al 2016;Drechsler 2017;Wätzold et al 2016). Examples include studies on the cost-effective selection of habitat types (Petersen et al 2016), conservation in an uncertain environment (Armsworth 2018), the cost-effective design of conservation payments (Drechsler et al 2016(Drechsler et al , 2017, the empirical assessment of conservation contracts (Hily et al 2015;Schöttker and Santos 2019), and the spatial differentiation of conservation payments (Armsworth et al 2012;Lewis et al 2011;Wätzold and Drechsler 2014).…”

Cost-effective conservation of amphibian ecology and evolution

“…Email: fsiqueiracampos@ub.edu A conservation dilemma arises from the question of how much cost and which biodiversity components should be chosen in large-scale conservation programs. This context suggests a need for development of conservation plans that optimally balance economic costs and ecological constraints (30). However, effective conservation plans should also take into account the maintenance of functional and evolutionary processes as a justification for investments, mainly in biodiversity hot spots (31)(32)(33).…”