Business And Biodiversity

Author : Mark Everard
Publisher : WIT Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781845642082

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The Business of Biodiversity by Mark Everard Pdf

These days, the business and sustainabilityA agenda is fast-moving. Business finds itself absolutely on the front line of the battle being waged between humankind (as the dominant species on the planet) and the rest of the living systems and creatures with which we share the planet. This will be seen in retrospect as a collective aberration of monstrous proportions (we are, in effect, making war on ourselves), but it is taking us a very long time indeed to wake up to the consequences of this aberration. The Business of BiodiversityA nails that mis-prioritisation with splendid eloquence. Once business people come to see that biodiversity still represents the primary resource for all our business activitiesA, then the business case for embedding biodiversity right at the heart of corporate strategy grows stronger by the day. By the same token, the societal case for putting biodiversity at the top of the agendaA rather than treating it as an irritating afterthought becomes overwhelming.

Author : Joshua Bishop
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781136497124

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The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity in Business and Enterprise by Joshua Bishop Pdf

This book is a product of the TEEB study (The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity). It provides important evidence of growing corporate concern about biodiversity loss and offers examples of how leading companies are taking action to conserve biodiversity and to restore ecosystems. This book reviews indicators and drivers of biodiversity loss and ecosystem decline, and shows how these present both risks and opportunities to all businesses. It examines the changing preferences of consumers for nature-friendly products and services, and offers examples of how companies are responding. The book also describes recent initiatives to enable businesses to measure, value and report their impacts and dependencies on biodiversity and ecosystem services. The authors review a range of practical tools to manage biodiversity risks in business, with examples of how companies are using these tools to reduce costs, protect their brands and deliver real business value. The book also explores the emergence of new business models that deliver biodiversity benefits and ecosystem services on a commercial basis, the policy enabling frameworks needed to stimulate investment and entrepreneurship to realize such opportunities, and the obstacles that must be overcome. The book further examines how businesses can align their actions in relation to biodiversity and ecosystem services with other corporate responsibility initiatives, including community engagement and poverty reduction. Finally, the book concludes with a summary and recommendations for action.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264597044

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Biodiversity: Finance and the Economic and Business Case for Action by OECD Pdf

This report sets the economic and business case for urgent and ambitious action on biodiversity. It presents a preliminary assessment of current biodiversity-related finance flows, and discusses the key data and indicator gaps that need to be addressed to underpin effective monitoring of both the pressures on biodiversity and the actions (i.e. responses) being implemented. The report concludes with ten priority areas where G7 and other countries can prioritise their efforts.

Author : Joshua Bishop
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781136497131

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The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity in Business and Enterprise by Joshua Bishop Pdf

This book is a product of the TEEB study (The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity). It provides important evidence of growing corporate concern about biodiversity loss and offers examples of how leading companies are taking action to conserve biodiversity and to restore ecosystems. This book reviews indicators and drivers of biodiversity loss and ecosystem decline, and shows how these present both risks and opportunities to all businesses. It examines the changing preferences of consumers for nature-friendly products and services, and offers examples of how companies are responding. The book also describes recent initiatives to enable businesses to measure, value and report their impacts and dependencies on biodiversity and ecosystem services. The authors review a range of practical tools to manage biodiversity risks in business, with examples of how companies are using these tools to reduce costs, protect their brands and deliver real business value. The book also explores the emergence of new business models that deliver biodiversity benefits and ecosystem services on a commercial basis, the policy enabling frameworks needed to stimulate investment and entrepreneurship to realize such opportunities, and the obstacles that must be overcome. The book further examines how businesses can align their actions in relation to biodiversity and ecosystem services with other corporate responsibility initiatives, including community engagement and poverty reduction. Finally, the book concludes with a summary and recommendations for action.

Author : Business and Biodiversity Offsets Programme
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1932928294

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Business, Biodiversity Offsets and BBOP by Business and Biodiversity Offsets Programme Pdf

Author : Donald S. Maier
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789400739918

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What's So Good About Biodiversity? by Donald S. Maier Pdf

There has been a deluge of material on biodiversity, starting from a trickle back in the mid-1980's. However, this book is entirely unique in its treatment of the topic. It is unique in its meticulously crafted, scientifically informed, philosophical examination of the norms and values that are at the heart of discussions about biodiversity. And it is unique in its point of view, which is the first to comprehensively challenge prevailing views about biodiversity and its value. According to those dominant views, biodiversity is an extremely good thing – so good that it has become the emblem of natural value. The book's broader purpose is to use biodiversity as a lens through which to view the nature of natural value. It first examines, on their own terms, the arguments for why biodiversity is supposed to be a good thing. This discussion cuts a very broad and detailed swath through the scientific, economic, and environmental literature. It finds all these arguments to be seriously wanting. Worse, these arguments appear to have consequences that should dismay and perplex most environmentalists. The book then turns to a deeper analysis of these failures and suggests that they result from posing value questions from within a framework that is inappropriate for nature's value. It concludes with a novel suggestion for framing natural value. This new proposal avoids the pitfalls of the ones that prevail in the promotion of biodiversity. And it exposes the goals of conservation biology, restoration biology, and the world's largest conservation organizations as badly ill-conceived.

Author : Ricardo Bayon,Nathaniel Carroll,Jessica Fox
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-27
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781136569173

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Conservation and Biodiversity Banking by Ricardo Bayon,Nathaniel Carroll,Jessica Fox Pdf

The conservation of biodiversity is now big business. Whether called conservation banking, species banking, habitat banking, biodiversity banking, biodiversity offsets, compensatory mitigation or ecological footprint offsetting, the idea of financially valuing biodiversity and using the market and businesses to promote conservation is growing rapidly. This handbook is a comprehensive guide to conservation banking, explaining what it is and how it works. Written by leading ecosystem market experts, the book provides practical guidance, tools, case studies, analysis and insights into conservation banking and other market-based approaches to conservation. Coverage includes the origins of conservation banking, the pros and cons for conservation, how conservation banking works in reality, the legal, practical and financial aspects of setting up and running a conservation bank and how 'biodiversity off-sets' can be internationalized. Published with Ecosystem Marketplace

Author : Oecd
Publisher : Org. for Economic Cooperation & Development
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9264793224

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Biodiversity: Finance and the Economic and Business Case for Action by Oecd Pdf

Author : Michael Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0415630630

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Accounting for Biodiversity by Michael Jones Pdf

This book explores the financial, business risk, ethical, cultural, and emotional rationales underlying the need for companies to actively protect, conserve and improve biodiversity within their sphere of operation.

Author : Alexandros Gasparatos,Katherine J. Willis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317934707

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Biodiversity in the Green Economy by Alexandros Gasparatos,Katherine J. Willis Pdf

In the past decade, the growing realization that biodiversity and human wellbeing are inextricably linked has led to the adoption of numerous environmental policies. The concept of the Green Economy has gained particular attention as an economic system where growth is possible within environmental limits. The preservation of ecosystem services and the halt of biodiversity loss are identified as key pillars of the Green Economy. Despite the concept’s momentum there is still no clear understanding of how biodiversity fits within a Green Economy. In the current debate, biodiversity is rarely acknowledged in economic sectors other than agriculture, forestry, fisheries and tourism, and when it is acknowledged biodiversity and its conservation feature more as buzzwords than as concrete and tangible components of the Green Economy. This book aims to identify, understand and offer pragmatic recommendations of how biodiversity conservation can become an agent of green economic development. This book establishes ways to assess biodiversity’s contributions to the economy and to meaningfully integrate biodiversity concerns in green-economy policies.

Author : Frank Vorhies
Publisher : World Conservation Union
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 2940240280

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Business & Biodiversity by Frank Vorhies Pdf

Author : David Stone,R. David Stone,Kristina Ringwood,Frank Vorhies,World Business Council for Sustainable Development
Publisher : Iucn-World Conservation Union
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105023440279

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Business and Biodiversity by David Stone,R. David Stone,Kristina Ringwood,Frank Vorhies,World Business Council for Sustainable Development Pdf

This guide explains how and why business should be involved in the biodiversity debate. It explains the main principles of the Convention on Biological Diversity and describes some of the Convention's potential implications. It also examines the many links between biodiversity and the private sector and highlights the need for a new, more rational approach to the manner in which biological resources are used and managed.

Author : Mark Aspelin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0997087927

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Profitable Conservation by Mark Aspelin Pdf

Biologists are alerting us to the fact that we're experiencing major lossesof wildlife habitat and biodiversity throughout the world. Corporations, onthe other hand, are expanding operations and hoping to grow. It's just amatter of time before the actions of corporations and biologists collideCorporations will soon face increasing stakeholder scrutiny and pressure todo their part to protect our planet's biodiversity and wildlife.Fortunately, conservation versus profit is not a zero-sum game where thewinner takes all. There are many win-win scenarios, which are good forbusiness (e.g., reduced costs, reduced risk, and increased profits) and goodfor biodiversity (e.g., healthy species, populations, and ecosystems). Thisbook will provide you with a solid understanding of how and why businessesshould be an active part of the solution, and you'll learn a wide variety ofprofitable-conservation strategies that will protect biodiversity andwildlife while boosting your bottom line.

Author : Wolfgang Wende,Graham - M. Tucker,Fabien Quétier,Matt Rayment,Marianne Darbi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319725819

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Biodiversity Offsets by Wolfgang Wende,Graham - M. Tucker,Fabien Quétier,Matt Rayment,Marianne Darbi Pdf

This book deals with the new concept of biodiversity offsets. The aim of offsetting schemes is to achieve no let loss or even net gain of biodiversity. Offsets obey a mitigation hierarchy and reflect the precautionary and polluter-pays principle in regard to project impacts. Readers gain insights into current debates on biodiversity policies, with top experts outlining theoretical principles and the latest research findings. At the same time the focus is on practical application and case studies. Today there is a lively international discussion among practitioners and scientists on the optimal legal framework, metrics and design of habitat banks to ensure the success of biodiversity offsets and to minimise the risks of failure or misuse. Contributing to the debate, this volume presents the activities and practices of biodiversity offsetting already implemented in Europe in selected EU member states, and the lessons that can be learnt from them. Readers may be surprised at how much experience already exists in these countries. A further aim of the book is to offer grounded insights on the road ahead, and foster a more intensive and fruitful discussion on how offsetting can be extended and improved upon, so that it becomes a key and effective component of Europe’s biodiversity conservation policy framework.

Author : David Pearce,Dominic Moran
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134165292

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The Economic Value of Biodiversity by David Pearce,Dominic Moran Pdf

Biodiversity loss is one of the major resource problems facing the world, and the policy options available are restricted by inappropriate economic tools which fail to capture the value of species and their variety. This study describes in non-technical terms how cost-benefit analysis techniques can be applied to species and species loss, and how they provide a measure of the efficiency of conservation measures. Only when conservation can be shown to pass such a basic economic test, the authors claim, will it be incorporated into policies.;David Pearce has also written Blueprint for a Green Economy.