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