Publication Date:
1998-04-08
Description:
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.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Ando -- Camm -- Polasky -- Solow -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1998 Mar 27;279(5359):2126-8.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉A. Ando, Resources for the Future, 1616 P Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036, USA. J. Camm, Department of Quantitative Analysis and Operations Management, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221, USA. S. Polasky, Department of Agricult.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9516117" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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