کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
5049943 1476386 2013 10 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Conservation when landowners have bargaining power: Continuous conservation investments and cost uncertainty
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
حفاظت زمانی که صاحبان زمین دارای قدرت چانه زنی هستند: سرمایه گذاری های مداوم حفاظت و عدم اطمینان هزینه
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری علوم کشاورزی و بیولوژیک بوم شناسی، تکامل، رفتار و سامانه شناسی
چکیده انگلیسی


- Conservation planning studies rely on estimates of landowners' opportunity costs.
- This implies that landowners will receive no surplus from conservation contracts.
- However, landowners could use their bargaining power to gain surplus in negotiations.
- We use game theory to estimate the surplus landowners could gain.
- Landowner surplus is highly variable and reflects differences in site substitutability.

Spatially heterogeneous costs of securing conservation agreements should be accounted for when prioritizing properties for conservation investment. Most researchers incorporating conservation costs into analyses have relied on estimates of landowners' opportunity costs of accepting a conservation agreement. Implicitly assumed in such studies is therefore that those who “produce” biodiversity (landowners) receive none of the surplus available from trade. Instead, landowners could use their bargaining power to gain profits from conservation investments. We employ game theory to determine the surplus landowners could obtain in negotiations over conservation agreements, and the consequent effects on conservation outcomes, when enrolment decisions are governed by continuous variables (e.g. the proportion of a property to enrol). In addition, we consider how landowner uncertainty regarding the opportunity costs of other landowners affects these outcomes. Landowners' ability to gain surplus is highly variable and reflects variation in the substitutability of different properties for achieving a specified conservation objective. The ability of landowners to obtain profits from conservation agreements results in conservation outcomes that are substantially diminished relative to when landowners accept investment at opportunity costs. Uncertainty increases landowner profits, leading to a greater diminution in conservation benefits.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Ecological Economics - Volume 93, September 2013, Pages 69-78
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