Optimisation and the selection of conservation contracts

Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 39-56

  Hajkowicz, Stefan ^a,b   Higgins, Andrew ^a,b   Williams, Kristen ^a,b   Faith, Daniel P ^c   Burton, Michael ^d  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b Australian Museum in Sydney ^*

^c AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Conservation planning; Environment benifits index; Environmental services auction; Market based instruments

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CONSERVATION PLANNING; OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 33846370879     PISSN: 1364985X     EISSN: 14678489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8489.2007.00345.x     Document Type: Article

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