Aligning 'public good' environmental stewardship with the landscape-scale: Adapting MBIs for private land conservation policy

Ecological Economics

Volumn 114, Issue , 2015, Pages 152-158

  Cooke, Benjamin ^a   Moon, Katie ^b  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Collaborative management; Landscape scale; Market based instruments; Private land conservation policy; Public good; Stewardship

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; LAND MANAGEMENT; LANDHOLDING; POLICY MAKING; PRICING POLICY; PRIVATE LAND;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84926063985     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2015.03.027     Document Type: Article

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