STORRE
STORRE: Stirling Online Research Repository
Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item:
http://hdl.handle.net/1893/2846| Appears in Collections: | Economics Journal Articles |
| Peer Review Status: | Refereed |
| Title: | What drives long-run biodiversity change? New insights from combining economics, palaeoecology and environmental history |
| Author(s): | Hanley, Nicholas Tinch, Dugald Angelopoulos, Konstantinos Davies, Althea Barbier, Edward B Watson, Fiona |
| Contact Email: | n.d.hanley@stir.ac.uk |
| Keywords: | agricultural development biodiversity paleoecology panel models instrumental variables Biodiversity Biodiversity Economic aspects Biodiversity Environmental aspects Evolutionary paleoecology |
| Issue Date: | Jan-2009 |
| Date Deposited: | 7-Apr-2011 |
| Citation: | Hanley N, Tinch D, Angelopoulos K, Davies A, Barbier EB & Watson F (2009) What drives long-run biodiversity change? New insights from combining economics, palaeoecology and environmental history. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 57 (1), pp. 5-20. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00950696; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeem.2008.03.005 |
| Abstract: | This paper presents a new approach to understanding the effects of economic factors on biodiversity change over the long run. We illustrate this approach by studying the determinants of biodiversity change in upland Scotland from 1600-2000. The measure of biodiversity used is a proxy for plant species diversity, constructed using statistical analysis of paleoecological (pollen) data. We assemble a new data set of historical land use and prices over 11 sites during this 400 year period; this data set also includes information on changes in agricultural technology, climate and land ownership. A panel model is then estimated, which controls for both supply and demand shifts over time. A main result is that prices, which act in our model as a proxy for livestock numbers, do indeed impact on biodiversity, with higher prices leading to lower biodiversity. |
| URL: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00950696 |
| DOI Link: | 10.1016/j.jeem.2008.03.005 |
| Rights: | Published in Journal of Environmental Economics and Management by Elsevier. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Volume 57, Issue 1, January 2009, pp. 5 - 20.; This is the peer reviewed version of this article.; NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, VOL 57, ISSUE 1, (January 2009). DOI 10.1016/j.jeem.2008.03.005. |
Files in This Item:
| File | Description | Size | Format | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| What drives long-run biodiversity change New insights from.pdf | Fulltext - Accepted Version | 221.18 kB | Adobe PDF | View/Open |
This item is protected by original copyright |
Items in the Repository are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.
The metadata of the records in the Repository are available under the CC0 public domain dedication: No Rights Reserved https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
If you believe that any material held in STORRE infringes copyright, please contact library@stir.ac.uk providing details and we will remove the Work from public display in STORRE and investigate your claim.