Many payment for ecosystem services programs peg subsidy levels to the complexity of conservation projects. We … investigate the additionality of conservation subsidies on project complexity using data from Maryland, which has used PES …

. Many farmers adopt conservation practices voluntarily. Since participation in cost sharing programs is voluntary, it is … likely that some farmers are awarded cost share funds to implement conservation practices would have adopted without cost … sharing. We investigate the additionality of conservation cost sharing using data from Maryland, a state that has used PES …

, infrastructure, agriculture, recreation and nature conservation. The formulation of alternative development scenarios is dominated by …

environmental conditions, to allow soil use management and conservation measures to be determined through the integrated …