Creating Markets for Habitat Conservation When Habitats Are Heterogeneous

• Tác giả: Kenneth M Chomitz
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 508.3 Treatment by areas, regions, places in general; by specific continents, countries, localities in ancient world
• Thông tin xuất bản: World Bank, Washington, D.C., 2013
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 320731
• Chủ đề: 1. ABANDONMENT; 2. AGRICULTURAL LAND; 3. AGRICULTURAL LANDS; 4. AGRICULTURE; 5. AIR POLLUTION

Tóm tắt

A tradable development rights (TDR) program focusing on biodiversity conservation faces a crucial problem defining which areas of habitat should be considered equivalent. Restricting the trading domain to a narrow area could boost the range of biodiversity conserved but could increase the opportunity cost of conservation. The issue is relevant to Brazil, where TDR-like programs are emerging. Current regulations require each rural property to maintain a forest reserve of at least 20 percent, but nascent policies allow some tradability of this obligation. The authors use a simple, spatially explicit model to simulate a hypothetical state-level program. They find that wider trading domains drastically reduce landholder costs of complying with this regulation and result in environmentally preferable landscapes.