Biodiversity Offsets European Perspectives on No Net Loss of Biodive
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
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iodiversity Offsets European Perspectives on No Net Loss of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
Biodiversity Offsets
Wolfgang Wende • Graham - M. Tucker • Fabien Quétier • Matt Rayment • Marianne Darbi Editors
Biodiversity Offsets European Perspectives on No Net Loss of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
Editors Wolfgang Wende Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development and TU Dresden Dresden, Germany
Graham - M. Tucker Institute for European Environmental Policy London, UK
Fabien Quétier BIOTOPE Mèze, France
Matt Rayment Consultant London, UK
Marianne Darbi Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig, Germany
ISBN 978-3-319-72579-6 ISBN 978-3-319-72581-9 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72581-9
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Preface
The intensification of land use and increasing urbanisation seen in Europe are causing a loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services on a dramatic scale. In response, Europe has successfully established Natura 2000, a Europe-wide network of protected sites, and protected many species of threatened fauna and flora. This is certainly an important step in the right direction. Yet outside of protected areas and beyond protected species, there are so far—at least on a pan-European level—few measures to reduce the loss of biodiversity and associated ecosystem services, and this despite the fact that the intensification of land use shows no sign of letting up. This policy gap in the wider environment is also a reason why the decline and loss of species has not (yet) been
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