Conserving biodiversity with tradable permits under changing conservation costs and habitat restoration time lags

Ecological Economics

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 533-541

  Drechsler, Martin ^a   Hartig, Florian ^a  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agent based model; Biodiversity conservation; Environmental policy; Habitat restoration; Habitat turnover; Time lag; Tradable permits

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; EMISSION CONTROL; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT RESTORATION; TIME ALLOCATION;

EID: 78650263105     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2010.10.004     Document Type: Article

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