Biodiversity in Environmental Assessment: Enhancing Ecosystem Services for Human Well-Being

Foreword Ahmed Djoghlaf (the Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity) Preface 1. Introduction Roel Slootweg, Asha Rajvanshi, Vinod B. Mathur and Arend Kolhoff 2. Interpretation of biodiversity Roel Slootweg 3. Biodiversity conservation and development: challenges for impact assessment Asha Rajvanshi and Vinod B. Mathur 4. The impact assessment framework Roel Slootweg and Peter P. Mollinga 5. Environmental assessment Arend Kolhoff, Bobbi Schijf, Rob Verheem and Roel Slootweg 6. Biodiversity in environmental impact assessment Asha Rajvanshi, Vinod B. Mathur and Roel Slootweg 7. Biodiversity-inclusive strategic environmental assessment Roel Slootweg 8. Reconciling conservation and development: the role of biodiversity offsets Asha Rajvanshi and Vinod B. Mathur 9. Valuation of ecosystem services: lessons from influential cases Pieter J. H. van Beukering and Roel Slootweg Epilogue - issues in need of further exploration Roel Slootweg, Asha Rajvanshi, Vinod B. Mathur and Arend Kolhoff References Annex: valuation of ecosystem services: influential cases Pieter J.H. van Beukering, Roel Slootweg and Desiree Immerzeel.

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