The efficiency of voluntary incentive policies for preventing biodiversity loss

Resource and Energy Economics

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 192-211

  Lewis, David J ^a   Plantinga, Andrew J ^b   Nelson, Erik ^c   Polasky, Stephen ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Conservation; Incentive policies; Land use; Spatial modeling

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION; BIODIVERSITY LOSS; BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION; BIOLOGICAL MODELS; DECISION MAKERS; ECONOMETRIC MODEL; HABITAT LOSS; INCENTIVE POLICIES; LAND PARCELS; LANDSCAPE PATTERN; LANDSCAPE SIMULATION; LOW LEVEL; POLICY APPROACH; PRIVATE INFORMATION; PRIVATE LAND; PUBLIC GOODS; RELATIVE EFFICIENCY; SELECTION CRITERIA; SPATIAL MODELING; SPATIAL PATTERNS; SPATIALLY EXPLICIT; VOLUNTARY INCENTIVES;

AGGLOMERATION; BIODIVERSITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSERVATION; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; LAND USE;

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION;

BIODIVERSITY; ECONOMETRICS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; HABITAT LOSS; INCENTIVE; LAND USE; LANDOWNER; MODELING; NATURE CONSERVATION;

EID: 78649931865     PISSN: 09287655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.reseneeco.2010.04.012     Document Type: Article

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