Species Distributions, Land Values, and Efficient Conservation

• DOI: 10.1126/science.279.5359.2126
• Publication Date: 2002-07-27T09:42:47Z
• Authors: Amy Ando; Jeffrey Camm; Stephen Polasky; Andrew Solow
• Keywords: Conservation Biology

Efforts at species conservation in the United States have tended to be opportunistic and uncoordinated. Recently, however, ecologists economists begun develop more systematic approaches. Here, problem of efficiently allocating scarce resources selection sites for biological reserves is addressed. With use county-level data on land prices incidence endangered species, it shown that accounting heterogeneity results a substantial increase efficiency terms either cost achieving fixed coverage or attained from budget.