Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sustainable use of ecosystem services / Kei Kabaya and Shunsuke Managi -- Convention of biological diversity and other initiatives to worldwide protection of biological diversity and ecosystem services / Tania Ray Bhattacharya and Shunsuke Managi -- The value of biodiversity and recreation demand models : a spatial Kuhn-Tucker model / Koichi Kuriyama, Yasushi Shoji and Takahiro Tsuge -- Payment for agricultural ecosystem services and its valuation / Kentaro Yoshida -- Determinants of happiness : environmental degradation and attachment to nature / Tetsuya Tsurumi, Kei Kuramashi, and Shunsuke Managi -- Productivity analysis on ecosystems and biodiversity / Kei Kabaya and Shunsuke Managi -- Towards the establishment of a PES policy framework / Seiji Ikkatai -- Impact assessment of sustainable forest use policy with the economic model / Satoshi Kojima and Kei Kabaya -- Financing REDD-plus : a review of options and challenges / Kimihiko Hyakumura and Henry Scheyvens -- Evaluation of offset schemes with a laboratory experiment / Keisaku Higashida, Kenta Tanaka, and Shunsuke Managi -- Project portfolio analysis on the global ecosystem restoration / Kei Kabaya and Shunsuke Managi -- Diversity on fisheries : price volatilities in Japanese market / Kentaka Aruga and Shunsuke Managi -- Market delineation among the Japanese retail fish market / Kentaka Aruga and Shunsuke Managi -- Conclusion: towards biodiversity conservation / Shunsuke Managi and Kei Kabaya.