Using economic incentives for Biodiversity Conservation / Lucy Emerton

Abstract

Incentive measures have long been used by governments to manipulate the ways in which macro and sectoral economies work. It is however only relatively recently that they have started to be applied to biodiversity conservation. An incentive for biodiversity conservation can be defined asi: “A specific inducement designed and implemented to influence government bodies, business, non-governmental organisations, or local people to conserve biological diversity or to use its components in a sustainable manner. Incentive measures usually take the form of a new policy, law or economic or social programme.”