Kovacs, Kent F.; Polasky, Stephen; Keeler, Bonnie; … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2012
We evaluate how land use change and the value ecosystem services affect the decision to invest in public land … ecosystem goods and services from public lands per dollar spent on acquisition. A spatially-explicit modeling tool, the … Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Tradeoffs (InVEST), quantifies how changes in land use and land cover (LULC …