Sustainability, natural capital and nature conservation

This volume contains presented papers from a workshop on sustainability in the context of nature conservation economics organized at the International Academy for Nature Conservation on the Island of Vilm in October 2007. The papers are divided into four parts: weak vs. strong sustainability and risk assessment, natural capital, scope and boundaries of economic valuation of nature’s goods and services, and practical examples of nature conservation economics. The book gives an overview on the current debate in the sphere of nature conservation economics and sustainability. Inhalt Ralf Döring Sustainability, natural capital and nature conservation - Introduction Werner Hediger The Conceptual Strength of Weak Sustainability Konrad Ott On Substantiating the Conception of Strong Sustainability Silke Gabbert and Hans-Peter Weikard Precaution, essential resources and basic individual rights: the case of the European chemicals policy Paul Ekins The Practical Application of the Concept of Critical Natural Capital and Strong Sustainability Ralf Döring Natural Capital - What’s the difference? Jürgen Meyerhoff and Alexandra Dehnhardt On the “non” use of environmental valuation estimates John Gowdy The Stern Review and New Directions in Environmental Valuation Jack Ruitenbeek Environmental Economic Valuation in a Second Best World: Pursuing Sustainability during the Mountain Pine Beetle Infestations in British Columbia, Canada Burkhard Schweppe-Kraft Natural Capital in Germany - State and Valuation; with special reference to Biodiversity