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Comparative costs and conservation of wild species in situ, e.g. orangutans
Tisdell, Clem; Swarna Nantha, Hemanath - In: Ecological Economics 70 (2011) 12, pp. 2429-2436
The extent to which conservation is feasible is constrained by budgets and the financial sacrifice stakeholders are willing to bear. Therefore a possible objective for conserving a species is to minimise the cost of achieving that stated aim. For example, if a minimum viable population (MVP) of...
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Coexistence of GM and non-GM crops with endogenously determined separation
Gray, Emily; Ancev, Tihomir; Drynan, Ross - In: Ecological Economics 70 (2011) 12, pp. 2486-2493
The possibility that genetically modified (GM) crops may contaminate non-GM crops through pollen-mediated gene flow presents a challenge to coexistence of GM agriculture with conventional and organic farming systems. In this paper an analytical model of coexistence is developed that allows for...
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Agri-environmental policies for biodiversity when the spatial pattern of the reserve matters
Bamière, Laure; David, Maia; Vermont, Bruno - In: Ecological Economics 85 (2013) C, pp. 97-104
The aim of this paper is to compare different environmental policies for cost-effective habitat conservation on agricultural lands, when the desired spatial pattern of reserves is a random mosaic. We use a spatially explicit mathematical programming model which studies the farmers' behavior as...
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The valuation of biodiversity conservation by the South African Khomani San “bushmen” community
Dikgang, Johane; Muchapondwa, Edwin - In: Ecological Economics 84 (2012) C, pp. 7-14
significant shift in conservation in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park and environs in South Africa. Biodiversity conservation will … environmental stewards. To assess their attitude toward biodiversity conservation, this study used the contingent valuation method … to investigate the economic values the communities assign to biodiversity conservation under three land tenure …
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Managing apparent competition between the feral pigs and native foxes of Santa Cruz Island
Melstrom, Richard T. - In: Ecological Economics 107 (2014) C, pp. 157-162
This paper presents a model of pest impacts in a multispecies framework. Strong detrimental relationships often form between pest populations and other biota, damaging ecosystem services and reducing social welfare. Under these circumstances, optimal pest management must account for the...
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The raw and the carved: Shipping costs and ivory smuggling
Moyle, Brendan - In: Ecological Economics 107 (2014) C, pp. 259-265
The recent and rapid increase in elephant poaching has caused international alarm. A fixed-effects panel-data regression model was employed to identify possible causes of this upsurge. Ivory seizures were categorised as worked or raw. These categories were also divided into four weight classes...
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Valuing tradeoffs between agricultural production and wetland condition in the U.S. Mid-Atlantic region
Bostian, Moriah B.; Herlihy, Alan T. - In: Ecological Economics 105 (2014) C, pp. 284-291
This study uses the directional output distance function, a multi-output economic production frontier model, to value the physical tradeoffs between agricultural production and wetland condition in the U.S. Mid-Atlantic region Nanticoke River watershed. We combine detailed ecological indicator...
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Economic drivers of biological invasions: A worldwide, bio-geographic analysis
Dalmazzone, Silvana; Giaccaria, Sergio - In: Ecological Economics 105 (2014) C, pp. 154-165
The introduction of invasive alien species (IAS) is generally acknowledged to depend both on the propagule pressure imposed by openness to international trade and on the health of the receiving ecosystem. Bio-geographic factors however play a crucial role in determining the level of risk...
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Compensation and Rewards for Environmental Services (CRES) and efficient design of contracts in developing countries. Behavioral insights from a natural field experiment
Clot, Sophie; Andriamahefazafy, Fano; Grolleau, Gilles; … - In: Ecological Economics 113 (2015) C, pp. 85-96
The use of economic incentives for biodiversity (mostly Compensation and Reward for Environmental Services including … Payment for ES) has been widely supported in the past decades and became the main innovative policy tools for biodiversity …
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Climate change and the willingness to pay to reduce ecological and health risks from wastewater flooding in urban centers and the environment
Veronesi, Marcella; Chawla, Fabienne; Maurer, Max; … - In: Ecological Economics 98 (2014) C, pp. 1-10
Climate change scenarios predict an increase of extreme rain events, which will increase the risk of wastewater flooding and of missing legal water quality targets. This study elicits the willingness to pay to reduce ecological and health risks from combined sewer overflows (CSOs) in rivers and...
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