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economic approaches is undertaken for the Boreal Forest Natural Region of Alberta, Canada. We find a significant increase in …Ecological reserve networks are an important strategy for conserving biodiversity. One approach to selecting reserves … value, minimizing the cost of the reserve network. The configuration of the reserve network as well as the biodiversity …
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economic approaches is undertaken for the Boreal Forest Natural Region of Alberta, Canada. We find a significant increase in …Ecological reserve networks are an important strategy for conserving biodiversity. One approach to selecting reserves … value, minimizing the cost of the reserve network. The configuration of the reserve network as well as the biodiversity …
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Forestland divestment by vertically integrated forest products companies (VIFPCs) has spurred significant forest … programs buffered these changes: 70% of large private ownership land was retained in the forest tax program and another 16% was … conservation programs shaped the provision of forest benefits during ownership transitions …
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Forest lands are a significant factor in the identity and economy of Oregon. This article outlines the role of forest …, allowing, among other things forest land owners to shift the payment of property taxes until timber is cut and providing an … assessment regime that shifts the assessment of forest lands away from the traditional “highest and best use” pattern, as the …
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This Article examines the growing opposition to the use of eminent domain for energy transport projects such as oil pipelines, gas pipelines, and electric transmission lines. Such projects were protected from the state legislative reforms that restricted eminent domain following the Supreme...
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Using command-and-control regulation of land use to produce a public good (as opposed to preventing physical off-property harms) without compensating the landowner can be expected to produce two unintended consequences: (i) management actions by landowners to reduce the land's attractiveness for...
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Water is critical not only to economic progress and sustainable development but most importantly, to human survival. Yet, the way water is valued suggests an inexhaustible supply, when the opposite is true. This paper examines if water rights in the Philippines are underpriced and looks at how...
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