Species at risk : using economic incentives to shelter endangered species on private lands / edited by Jason F. Shogren.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shogren, Jason F.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nature conservation--Economic aspects--United States.

Nature conservation.

Nature conservation--United States--Citizen participation.

Endangered species--United States.

Endangered species.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (285 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Protecting endangered species of animals and plants is a goal that almost everyone supports in principle—but in practice private landowners have often opposed the regulations of the Endangered Species Act, which, they argue, unfairly limits their right to profit from their property. To encourage private landowners to cooperate voluntarily in species conservation and to mitigate the economic burden of doing so, the government and nonprofit land trusts have created a number of incentive programs, including conservation easements, leases, habitat banking, habitat conservation planning, safe harbors, candidate conservation agreements, and the "no surprise" policy. In this book, lawyers, economists, political scientists, historians, and zoologists come together to assess the challenges and opportunities for using economic incentives as compensation for protecting species at risk on private property. They examine current programs to see how well they are working and also offer ideas for how these programs could be more successful. Their ultimate goal is to better understand how economic incentive schemes can be made both more cost-effective and more socially acceptable, while respecting a wide range of views regarding opportunity costs, legal standing, biological effectiveness, moral appropriateness, and social context.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""CHAPTER 1. Introduction, by Jason F. Shogren""; ""PART I. CURRENT AND PROPOSED INCENTIVE OPTIONS FOR SPECIES PROTECTION ON PRIVATE LANDS""; ""CHAPTER 2. The Endangered Species Act and Its Current Set of Incentive Tools for Species Protection, by Debra Donahue""; ""CHAPTER 3. An Economic Review of Incentive Mechanisms to Protect Species on Private Lands, by Gregory M. Parkhurst and Jason F. Shogren""; ""PART II. CHALLENGES TO USING ECONOMIC INCENTIVES FOR SPECIES PROTECTION""

""CHAPTER 4. Endangered Species Protection and Ways of Life: Beyond Economy and Ecology, by Frieda Knobloch and R. McGreggor Cawley""""CHAPTER 5. A Critical Examination of Economic Incentives to Promote Conservation, by Debra Donahue""; ""CHAPTER 6. Appraising the Conservation Value of Private Lands, by Steven W. Buskirk and Samantha M. Wisely""; ""CHAPTER 7. Markets for Conserving Biodiversity Habitat: Principles and Practice, by Thomas D. Crocker""

""CHAPTER 8. The Role of Private Information in Designing Conservation Incentives for Property Owners, by Jason F. Shogren, Rodney B. W. Smith, and John Tschirhart""""PART III. ECONOMIC INCENTIVES FOR ESA REAUTHORIZATION""; ""CHAPTER 9. Evaluating the Incentive Tools, by Gregory M. Parkhurst and Jason F. Shogren""; ""About the Authors""; ""Index""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-292-79716-8

OCLC:

60745604