Evaluation of a market in wetland credits: Entrepreneurial wetland banking in Chicago

Conservation Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 636-646

  Robertson, Morgan ^a,b   Hayden, Nicholas ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Clean Water Act; Compensatory mitigation; Ecosystem services; Wetland credit markets; Wetland mitigation banking

Indexed keywords

BANKING; CENSUS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPENSATION SYSTEM; CONSERVATION PLANNING; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; MITIGATION; REGULATORY APPROACH; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WETLAND;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; LEGAL ASPECT; METHODOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME; UNITED STATES; WETLAND;

CHICAGO; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; MODELS, ECONOMIC; TIME FACTORS; WETLANDS;

CHICAGO; ILLINOIS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 44949178432     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2008.00963.x     Document Type: Article

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