Routledge Economic Valuation of Biodiversity - Academic Book

Explore the complex relationship between economic systems and environmental health with Economic Valuation of Biodiversity: An Interdisciplinary Conceptual Perspective. As part of the Routledge Studies in Biodiversity Politics and Management series, this text examines biodiversity loss through political, social, and economic lenses. From an economic standpoint, the rapid decline of biological diversity presents two major challenges. It leads to a loss of options and increased scarcity of the environmental good known as biodiversity. Furthermore, the book addresses how global and local economic structures often act as the primary drivers behind this loss, representing a significant market failure. This resource provides a necessary perspective for those studying how economic activity impacts the natural world and how these processes can be understood within a broader interdisciplinary framework.