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Government and non-government conservation agencies have long-term goals and objectives to provide environmental …, private lands are often included in conservation programs to achieve these objectives. Formal contracts are entered into … between the private landholder and the conservation agency to provide environmental services, or more commonly to provide …
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may be crucial. Once a country becomes 'developed' and integrated into the global economic system, conservation of nature … this relies substantially on political processes including lobbying by conservation groups. It has been claimed that free … trade, e.g. implementation of GATT regulations can be expected to foster greater conservation as will .the structural …
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Many environmental policy issues involve conflicts between nature conservation and economic development. The economic …
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Ecologists frequently note the importance of modelling entire ecosystems rather than single species, but most bioeconomic models in the current literature focus on a single species. While the mathematical difficulty of multiple species may quickly become overwhelming, sometimes making the single...
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The on-farm conservation and management of native grasslands, especially those that are botanically diverse or support … which may be requnred to nchieve desired conservation outcomes ate also discussed. Some suggestions are made For relevant …
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suggested of measuring these impacts accurately. The conservation consequences of the economic benefits from wildlife tourism … benefits from wildlife tourism contribute to nature conservation depends on several specified circumstances. In conclusion, it …
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By design, tenders are used when costs are unknown. But if costs are unknown, how can we evaluate the tenders, when their evaluation involves measuring their cost-effectiveness? We identify three approaches: theoretical, empirical and experimental. We first use experimental data to compare the...
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Designing a conservation auction where bidders know the ecological value of their land poses challenges for policy … conservation. The results indicate that auctions offering multi-period contracts might be better equipped to constrain strategic … that given certain design intricacies, competition in an auction for conservation can be preserved with the provision of a …
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's preferences, and a conservation incentive in the form of a revenue-neutral, ad valorem tax on resource consumption. Adding …
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focused on the former, whereas government agencies have, for conservation purposes, mainly implemented the latter. This paper …
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