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arrow Review of the benefits of good mitigation planning for harmonizing conservation and development and establish the rationale behind the mitigation hierarchy.
arrow Review of ‘no net loss’ and ‘net positive gain’ strategies.
arrow Review of traditional approaches to biodiversity impact mitigation.
arrow Introduction to the concept of biodiversity offsets and a review of the prospects and challenges of its applications for benefiting biodiversity and business plans.
arrow 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.