As economic incentives for biodiversity and ecosystem service protection (e.g., payments for ecosystem services) have … that economic incentives may undermine people's intrinsic motivations to conserve biodiversity. In this paper we review the … theoretical insights and empirical findings on motivation crowding effects with economic instruments for biodiversity protection …

The aim of this article is to contribute to the development of ecological-economic incentives in conservation policy …. Our approach uses strategies for establishing habitat networks as an example to develop spatially-oriented incentives in … urban landscapes. The incentives should ideally consider aspects both of ecological effectiveness and economic efficiency …

stewardship. Such investments could complement or even replace public investments in traditional conservation programs. The report …

Many payment for ecosystem services programs peg subsidy levels to the complexity of conservation projects. We … investigate the additionality of conservation subsidies on project complexity using data from Maryland, which has used PES …

. Many farmers adopt conservation practices voluntarily. Since participation in cost sharing programs is voluntary, it is … likely that some farmers are awarded cost share funds to implement conservation practices would have adopted without cost … sharing. We investigate the additionality of conservation cost sharing using data from Maryland, a state that has used PES …