An agglomeration payment for cost-effective biodiversity conservation in spatially structured landscapes

Resource and Energy Economics

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 261-275

  Drechsler, Martin ^a   Wätzold, Frank ^a,b   Johst, Karin ^a   Shogren, Jason F ^c  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Agglomeration bonus; Biodiversity conservation; Cost effectiveness; Ecological economic modelling; Metapopulation; Spatial heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION; CONCEPTUAL LEVELS; COST SAVING; EFFICIENCY GAIN; FRAGMENTED LANDSCAPES; GERMANY; METAPOPULATION; METAPOPULATIONS; SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; COST EFFECTIVENESS; COSTS; ECOLOGY;

AGGLOMERATION;

AGGLOMERATION; BIODIVERSITY; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HETEROGENEITY; METAPOPULATION;

GERMANY;

MACULINEA ARION;

EID: 77249129330     PISSN: 09287655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.reseneeco.2009.11.015     Document Type: Article

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