Adverse changes in environmental conditions due to unprecedented industrialization have
been attracting the attention of policymakers, researchers, and activists. For developing …

Increasing human pressure threatens plant and animal species with extinction worldwide.
National political institutions constitute an important arena for biodiversity conservation. Yet …

This paper summarizes the arguments and counterarguments within the scientific discussion
on the issue of the environmental performance and institutions quality. The main purpose of …

The expansion and intensification of agriculture as well as the associated land clearing are
threatening both biodiversity and human wellbeing in tropical areas. Implementing …

Empirical studies of the relationship between GDP per capita and country-level CO 2
emissions tend to focus on the direct effect of per capita GDP growth, rarely taking political …

Mainstreaming biodiversity across political sectors and levels is a central challenge to
conserving global biodiversity. This article introduces biodiversity policy integration (BPI) as …

Urbanization is a process globally responsible for loss of biodiversity and for biological
homogenization. Urbanization may have a direct negative impact on species behaviour and …

This paper summarizes the arguments and counterarguments within the scientific discussion
on the issue of environmental performance. The investigation of the topic of the Composite …

This paper defines and analyses the characteristics of social trust that develop in natural
areas, examining the connections and interactions between the people and institutions …

Theories of environmental outcomes have been developed mostly through large-N cross-
national studies, which have a structuralist bias and rely heavily on correlations. Structured …