Swarna Nantha, Hemanath; Tisdell, Clement A. - School of Economics, University of Queensland - 2008
for palm oil as a vegetable oil and biofuel. In tackling this conservation problem, therefore, economic factors cannot be … overlooked. This article analyses these factors and how they curtail effective orangutan conservation. Of significance are the … high opportunity costs of orangutan conservation and market failures associated with the public-goods nature of the …