Wetlands are one of the most important ecosystems on Earth. Nevertheless, various challenges threaten these ecosystems and disrupt their ecological character. Among these, the effects of human-based threats are more devastating. Following mass degradation of wetlands during 1970s, the Ramsar...

Because habitat conversion is the greatest threat to species, this article focuses on economic incentives for private land users to protect habitat. Habitat protection policies that fail to account for private incentives often have unintended negative consequences. Private incentives for habitat...

Although ecologists have long recognized the significance of persistence in determining the static and the intertemporal behavior of ecological systems, it is only very recently that economists have begun to study this notion in relation to the use of services that are provided by jointly...