Diversity functions and the value of biodiversity.
Biodiversity loss has been recognized as one of the most important global environmental problems, but the choice of conservation policies is hampered by the lack of an operational concept of biodiversity. Weitzman (1992, 1998) develops a framework for the measurement of diversity and the identificat...
| Published in: | Land Economics Vol. 78; no. 1; pp. 20 - 28 |
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University of Wisconsin Press
February 2002
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