From Walden to Wall Street : frontiers of conservation finance / editor, James N. Levitt ; assistant editor, Lydia K. Bergen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Levitt, James N.

Bergen, Lydia K.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Habitat conservation--North America--Finance.

Habitat conservation.

Biodiversity conservation--North America--Finance.

Biodiversity conservation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxvi, 235 p. ) ill., maps ;

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : Island Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"From Walden to Wall Street makes clear that a system of market-based conservation finance is vital to the future of environmental conservation." -Henry M. Paulson, Chairman and CEO, Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.; Chairman of the Board of Governors, The Nature Conservancy In the absence of innovation in the field of conservation finance, a daunting funding gap faces conservationists aiming to protect America's system of landscapes that provide sustainable resources, water, wildlife habitat, and recreational amenities. Experts estimate that the average annual funding gap will be between $1.9 billion and $7.7 billion over the next forty years. Can the conservation community come up with new methods for financing that will fill this enormous gap? Which human and financial resources will allow us to fund critical land conservation needs? From Walden to Wall Street brings together the experience of more than a dozen pioneering conservation finance practitioners to address these crucial issues. Contributors present groundbreaking ideas including mainstreaming environmental markets; government ballot measures for land conservations; convertible tax-exempt financing; and private equity markets. The creativity and insight of From Walden to Wall Street offers considerable hope that, even in this era of widespread financial constraints, the American conservation community's financial resources may potentially grow dramatically in both quantity and quality in the decades to come.

Contents:

Financial innovation for conservation : an American tradition / James N. Levitt

Conservation finance viewed as a system : tackling the financial challenge / Patrick Coady

Contours of conservation finance in the United States at the turn of the twenty-first century / Frank Casey

State and local government funding of land conservation : what is the full potential? / Ernest Cook and Matt Zieper

External revolving loan funds : expanding interim financing for land conservation / Mary McBryde, Peter R. Stein, and Story Clark

Employing limited development strategies to finance land conservation and community-based development projects / Ned Sullivan and Steve Rosenberg

Expanding the frontiers of conservation finance / Kevin W. Schuyler

Transferable state tax credits as a land conservation incentive / Philip M. Hocker

Payrolls versus Pickerels Redux : a story of economic revitalization and timberland conservation using new markets tax credits / Steve Weems

Mainstreaming environmental markets / Adam Davis

The gray and the green : the built infrastructure and conservation investment / Jeffery T. More

Financing private lands : conservation and management through conservation incentives in the farm bill / Robert Bonnie.

Notes:

"Lincoln Institute of Land Policy."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-209) and index.

ISBN:

1-4294-9532-4

OCLC:

560176584