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