Spurred by recent initiatives aimed at achieving “No Net Loss” of biodiversity, the concept of
biodiversity offsetting (henceforth BO) is growing in popularity in the political, business …

Urbanization leads to land-use changes and landscape fragmentation, impacting natural
habitats and their connectivity. In principle, many local decision-makers are obliged to adopt …

Biodiversity offsets are applied in many countries to compensate for impacts on the
environment, but research on regulatory frameworks and implementation enabling effective …

Explorations of future land use change are important to understand potential conflicts
between competing land uses, trade-offs associated with particular land change trajectories …

Land developers can apply biodiversity offsetting in different ways, from a project-by-project
approach to a pooled and proactive approach, this latter appearing to provide greater …

Biodiversity offsetting (BO) is aimed at achieving no net loss of biodiversity in the context of
economic development. Through a choice experiment in Northern France, we show that …

Human interventions, ie settlement and construction activities, in the agricultural landscape
including farmland but also natural and semi-natural habitats are a major driver of …

Abstract Biodiversity offsets ('offsets') are an increasingly widespread conservation tool.
Often, offset policies have a like-for-like requirement, whereby permitted biodiversity losses …

Although many countries have included biodiversity offsetting (BO) requirements in their
environmental regulations over the past four decades, this mechanism has recently been the …

Market-based instruments, among them tradable permits, are increasingly being used to
manage environment and natural resources such as transferable fishing quotas and the …