Conservation: Economics, Science, and Policy

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Conservation
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Preface
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Abbreviations
1 Environmental Conservation and Environmental Change
	1.1 Introduction
	1.2 The biological record
	1.3 Implications for conservation
	1.4 Plan of the book
PART I THE ECONOMIC THEORY OF CONSERVATION
	2 The Decision Problem
		2.1 Introduction
		2.2 Elements of the decision problem
		2.3 A numerical example: the wine storage problem
		2.4 Summary and conclusions
	3 Hotelling Conservation
		3.1 Introduction
		3.2 The Hotelling arbitrage condition
		3.3 Hotelling prices and quantities
		3.4 Renewable natural resources and the Hotelling arbitrage condition
		3.5 Connecting Hotelling conservation and conservation biology
		3.6 Summary and conclusions
	4 The Conservation of Renewable Resources
		4.1 Introduction
		4.2 Marine capture fisheries
		4.3 Forests and forestry
		4.4 Rangelands
		4.5 Summary and conclusions
PART II VALUATION
	5 The Valuation of Environmental Goods and Services
		5.1 Introduction
		5.2 The basis of value
		5.3 Ecosystem services and the value of nonmarketed environmental resources
		5.4 The valuation of provisioning and cultural services
		5.5 Revealed preference methods
		5.6 Stated preference methods
		5.7 The valuation of regulating services
		5.8 Summary and conclusions
	6 The Valuation of Environmental Assets
		6.1 Introduction
		6.2 Sustainability and the value of environmental assets
		6.3 The value of environmental assets in the national accounts
		6.4 Inclusive wealth
		6.5 Environmental assets and total factor productivity
		6.6 Summary and conclusions
	7 Substitutability and the Valuation of Natural Capital
		7.1 Introduction
		7.2 Substitution in production
		7.3 Substitution in a generalized model of joint production
		7.4 Substitution and public goods
		7.5 Net substitutes and complements
		7.6 Conditional substitutes and complements
		7.7 Summary and conclusions
PART III ALIGNING THE PRIVATE AND SOCIAL VALUE OF NATURAL RESOURCES
	8 Environmental Public Goods
		8.1 Introduction
		8.2 The optimal provision of public goods
		8.3 Types of public goods
		8.4 Strategic behavior and the provision of public goods
		8.5 Resolving the public goods problem
		8.6 Summary and conclusions
	9 Environmental Externalities
		9.1 Introduction
		9.2 The nature of environmental externalities
		9.3 Unidirectional externalities
		9.4 Positional externalities
		9.5 Public externalities
		9.6 Aligning private and social value
		9.7 Summary and conclusions
	10 Poverty, Value, and Conservation
		10.1 Introduction
		10.2 Income effects and poverty
		10.3 Poverty-​population-​environment
		10.4 Per capita income growth and conservation
		10.5 Wealth, property rights, and conservation
		10.6 Summary and conclusions
	11 Conservation in Protected Areas
		11.1 Introduction
		11.2 Protected area design: ecological principles
		11.3 Protected area design: economic principles
		11.4 Protected areas and the supply of ecosystem services
		11.5 Protected areas and poverty
		11.6 Summary and conclusions
	12 Conservation Beyond Protected Areas
		12.1 Introduction
		12.2 Conservation of threatened wild species outside protected areas
		12.3 Conservation in agriculture
		12.4 Habitat substitutability
		12.5 Summary and conclusions
	13 Conservation at the National Level
		13.1 Introduction
		13.2 Property rights
		13.3 Legal restrictions on land use
		13.4 Environmental offsets
		13.5 Economic incentives
		13.6 Summary and conclusions
	14 Conservation at the International Level
		14.1 Introduction
		14.2 Migratory species
		14.3 Transboundary and linked ecosystems
		14.4 Trade, travel, and the movement of species
		14.5 Strategic behavior and transboundary conservation
		14.6 Funding conservation as a global public good
		14.7 Summary and conclusions
	15 Conservation in the Future
		15.1 Introduction
		15.2 Environmental trends
		15.3 Economic trends
		15.4 The population affected by conservation decisions
		15.5 The optimal scale at which to conserve and the governance of conservation
Index