course outline
Review of the benefits of good mitigation planning for harmonizing conservation and development and establish the rationale behind the mitigation hierarchy. | |
Review of ‘no net loss’ and ‘net positive gain’ strategies. | |
Review of traditional approaches to biodiversity impact mitigation. | |
Introduction to the concept of biodiversity offsets and a review of the prospects and challenges of its applications for benefiting biodiversity and business plans. | |
Review of recent developments in biodiversity offsets and related market-based mechanisms on biodiversity. Introduction to emerging best practice methodologies for designing biodiversity offsets and incorporating biodiversity into business plans and decisions. |
Last Updated: January 16, 2014