Globally the coastal zone is suffering the collateral damage from continuing urban development and construction, expanding resource sectors, increasing population …
The rising popularity of biodiversity offsetting as a tool for balancing biodiversity losses from development with equivalent gains elsewhere has sparked debate on many fronts. The …
Biodiversity offsets are an increasingly popular yet controversial tool in conservation. Their popularity lies in their potential to meet the objectives of biodiversity conservation and of …
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Offsetting is emerging as an important but controversial approach for managing environment– development conflicts. Biodiversity offsets are designed to compensate for damage to …
There is an urgent need to improve the evaluation of conservation interventions. This requires specifying an objective and a frame of reference from which to measure …
Biodiversity offset trades usually aim to achieve 'no net loss' of biodiversity. But the question remains: no net loss compared to what? Determining whether an offset can compensate for …
Biodiversity conservation policies incorporating a no net loss (NNL) principle are being implemented in many countries. However, there are linguistic and conceptual …
The benefit (or additionality) attributable to a conservation action is the difference between the outcomes of two scenarios:(1) the scenario with the conservation action, and (2) the …
Spurred by recent initiatives aimed at achieving “No Net Loss” of biodiversity, the concept of biodiversity offsetting (henceforth BO) is growing in popularity in the political, business …