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Titre :	Tracking the origins and development of biodiversity offsetting in academic research and its implications for conservation: A review
Auteurs :	Calvet Coralie, Auteur ; Ollivier Guillaume, Auteur ; Napoleone Claude, Auteur
Type de document :	Article
Dans :	Biological Conservation (192 DEC 2015)
Article en page(s) :	492-503
Langues:	Anglais
Résumé :	Spurred by recent initiatives aimed at achieving "No Net Loss" of biodiversity, the concept of biodiversity offsetting (henceforth 130) is growing in popularity in the political, business, conservation and academic arenas. Promising to make economic development compatible with biodiversity conservation, BO mechanisms appear as the new tool for biodiversity conservation, and they are increasingly integrated into agendas and strategies to biodiversity. The concept has also become popular with scholars but it is still highly debated in particular its ecological consequences. Moreover, this recent enthusiasm for BO has led to confusion especially on its emergence and development in the academic sphere, and its implications for conservation. This article addresses these issues. It examines the origins, characteristics and dynamics of

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