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Species Distributions, Land Values, and Efficient Conservation

Published:1998-03-27 Issue:5359 Volume:279 Page:2126-2128
ISSN:0036-8075
Container-title:Science
language:en
Short-container-title:Science

Author:

Ando Amy¹²³⁴,Camm Jeffrey¹²³⁴,Polasky Stephen¹²³⁴,Solow Andrew¹²³⁴

Affiliation:

1. A. Ando, Resources for the Future, 1616 P Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036, USA.

2. J. Camm, Department of Quantitative Analysis and Operations Management, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221, USA.

3. S. Polasky, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA.

4. A. Solow, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA.

Abstract

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

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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