available to a conservation agency. We conclude there exists anoptimal level of information on bidders’ costs, neither too large …

Concern about "open space" is growing. Conservation advocates worry that private land use decision-makers preserve too … liabilities. Both factors may be empirically important, although tax deductibility may have larger conservation effects than does …? Do they motivate enough conservation of open space? Do tax incentives target the right conservation priorities? …

Economic theory suggests that price incentives can be used to encourage water conservation in residential consumers …. Conservation water rates are designed to send price signals that encourage households to reduce discretionary water use in the long … term.However, it is not always clear that conservation rates effectively provide meaningful incentives. Utilities …

The Conservation Security Program was authorized in the 2002 Farm Bill and is hailed by many observers as the first … conservation programs show that premature termination of contracts is a persistent issue. This type of producer behavior is not … impact of alternative behavioral assumptions and dynamic biophysical effects of conservation practices on the participation …