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Luke M. Brander

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Environmental Economist - Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM)

Affiliated to the Institute for Environmental Studies at VU University Amsterdam as Associate Researcher and to Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Division of Environment as Adjunct Assistant Professor.

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Perspective Paper

Post-2015 Consensus: Biodiversity Perspective, Brander

This perspective paper makes a proposal for improved methodologies for conducting large scale assessments of the costs and benefits of meeting targets for biodiversity and ecosystem change. This is driven by the recognition that currently applied approaches, such as those used by Markandya in the challenge paper, do not produce sufficiently accurate information for use in cost-benefit analysis. For example, the enormous span of results for the wetland program implies that we cannot estimate even the order of magnitude of benefits.

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Assessment Paper

Third Copenhagen Consensus: Biodiversity Assessment, Hussain Markandya et al

An Assessment Paper on Biodiversity has been written by S. S. Hussain , A. Markandya, L. Brander, McVittie A, de Groot , Vardakoulias O, A. Wagtendonk and P. Verburg and released by the Copenhagen...

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Copenhagen Consensus III

In 2004 and 2008, the Copenhagen Consensus Center held two major projects that helped to shape overseas development spending and philanthropic decisions for years to come. The third Copenhagen Consensus was the latest iteration of our ongoing work to prioritize the best solutions.

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