Conserving tropical biodiversity via market forces and spatial targeting.

ABSTRACT: The recent report from the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity [(2010) Global Biodiversity Outlook 3] acknowledges that ongoing biodiversity loss necessitates swift, radical action. Protecting undisturbed lands, although vital, is clearly insufficient, and the key role of unprotected, private land owned is being increasingly recognized. Seeking to avoid common assumptions of a social planner backed by government interventions, the present work focuses on the incentives of the individual landowner. We use detailed data to show that successful conservation on private land depends on three factors: conservation effectiveness (impact on target species), private costs (especially reductions in production), and private benefits (the extent to which conservation activities provi

SUBMITTER: Bateman IJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4475989 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature