Biodiversity Offsets Between Regulation and Voluntary Commitment

Marianne Darbi is an environmental planner and researcher with many years of experience in landscape and spatial planning. After studying at the Technische Universität Dresden (Germany) and École d'Architecture et de Paysage de Bordeaux (France), she graduated in landscape architecture in 2007 and worked at the Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development (Dresden) until December 2016. Since January 2017, she has been working as a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Conservation Biology at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (Leipzig).Marianne’s research focuses on biodiversity conservation and management as well as the mitigation of environmental impacts in the national and international context, sustainable land use, green economy and market-based instruments. Her PhD on Voluntary Bioversity Offsets at the Technical University of Dresden was awarded the Study Prize of the German Environmental Impact Assessment Association in 2016.Her work has two major aims: 1) networking biodiversity research across disciplines (interdisciplinary) and 2) making knowledge relevant and transferable for decision making (science-policy interface). Marianne has advised institutions such as the European Commission, the Business and Biodiversity Offsets Program, the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation and KfW among others. Furthermore, she has worked with various NGOs and the private sector.

• Chapter 1. Biodiversity offsets and no net loss - introduction, problem statement and research questions.- Chapter 2. Developing a typology of biodiversity offsets using an internet and expert based approach - methods and materials.- Chapter 3. Applying the concept of voluntariness to explain behavior towards environmental conservation.- Chapter 4.Voluntariness of biodiversity offsets.- Chapter 5. Development of a typology of biodiversity offsets.- Chapter 6. Illustrative case studies for different types of biodiversity offsets.- Chapter 7. Discussion of the development of a typology of biodiversity offsets.- Chapter 8. Putting the developed typology of biodiversity offsets into context: some conclusions.- Chapter 9. Outlook: potential for further improvement and research on the developed typology of biodiversity offsets.