On March 8, 2012, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service and the Department of the … Interior’s Fish and Wildlife Services revealed a new conservation program called Working Lands for Wildlife. This federally … funded partnership devotes 33 million dollars to voluntary landowner habitat conservation for seven target species, including …

This paper analyzes the effect of alternative institutional arrangements on the conservation of endangered species and … economic activity on private land. Because a landowner does not capture the full value of species conservation, her preferences … lowering conservation value and to deny access to regulators in order to prevent collection of information. Paying compensation …

biodiversity conservation becomes a land use issue. Since in developing countries, land is the most important productive asset, the … conservation of historical buildings in urban areas, is extended and adapted here to the conservation of biodiversity, both within … opportunity costs of conservation are forgone development, while the benefits from conservation are distant and largely external …

The importance of compensation payments for biodiversity-enhancing land-use measures has grown over the past decade …, particularly in connection with agri-environmental policy. Given that both the costs and the benefits of biodiversity … cost-effectiveness associated with uniform payments for biodiversity-enhancing land-use measures to be assessed for …

Nationally implemented protected area measures for biodiversity conservation generate cross-border externalities. For … internalizing these externalities at the international level, the Global Environment Facility (GEF) has been established as a …

The paper’s aim is to assess effectiveness of the implementation of nature conservation measures in Polish agriculture … farming support. In Poland they are ineffectively implemented and insufficiently directed to nature conservation. This refers … organic farming does not involve requirements referring to biodiversity. There are some deficiencies in biodiversity …