Conservation practitioners are increasingly turning to incentive-based approaches to encourage local resource users to change behaviors that impact on biodiversity and natural habitat. Three such approaches are buyouts, conservation agreements and alternative livelihoods. We assess the design...

[eng] Eduard NiESTEN, Richard RICE — Sustainable forest management and direct incentives for biodiversity conservation Current strategies for conservation are generally based on indirect incentives through which the habitat protection is an ancillary benefit from another activity. Sustainable...

Current strategies for conservation are generally based on indirect incentives through which the habitat protection is an ancillary benefit from another activity. Sustainable forest management is typical of such a strategy. However it is neither financially feasible nor ecologically...

"The central challenge of tropical biodiversity conservation involves reconciling private and social incentives to 'internalize' externalities. Positive externalities of natural resource conservation accrue at the local, national and global levels, although the costs of conservation are...