Conventional agri-environmental schemes (AES) have been criticized for failing to exploit
conservation synergies that could be obtained from spatial coordination of conservation …

We offer three reasons why economics matters more to species protection than many people
think and what this implies for the ongoing debate over the reauthorization of the …

This paper examines an experiment conducted to explore a voluntary incentive mechanism,
the agglomeration bonus, designed to protect endangered species and biodiversity by …

Abstract The Endangered Species Act of 1973 is one of our most far-reaching and
controversial environmental laws. While the benefits of protecting endangered species …

Many ecosystem services are public goods whose provision depends on the spatial pattern
of land use. The pattern of land use is often determined by the decisions of multiple private …

It has been argued that the land-use restrictions prescribed by the Endangered Species Act
have failed to protect endangered species on private land. Hence, there has been a call for …

It has been argued that the traditional regulatory approach of the Endangered Species Act,
based on land-use restrictions, has failed to protect endangered species on private land. In …

Using an interdisciplinary approach, we present an ecological-economic modelling
procedure to design compensation payments for species protection. We develop our …

The importance of compensation payments for biodiversity-enhancing land-use measures
has grown over the past decade, particularly in connection with agri-environmental policy …

Habitat fragmentation is widely considered a primary threat to biodiversity. In this paper, we
analyze incentive-based policies designed to reduce forest fragmentation in the coastal …