A field guide to economics for conservationists

Fisher, Brendan (author.). Naidoo, Robin, (author.). Ricketts, Taylor H., (author. ).

Record details

ISBN: 9781936221509
ISBN: 1936221500
Physical Description: print
xvi, 190 pages ; 19 cm
Publisher: Greenwood Village, Colorado : Roberts and Company Publishers, [2015]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

1. Introduction: Why Economics Is at the Core of Conservation -- Conservation Challenges and Economics -- What Economics Is (and Isn't) -- Why You Need a Book about Economics -- Primer on Economics for Conservation -- 2. Opportunity Cost and Cost-Benefit Analysis: Why Conservation Often Loses Out to Other Stuff -- Opportunity Costs in Ghana: Fishing and Bushmeat -- Opportunity Costs in Borneo: Birds and Logging -- Cost-Benefit Analysis (A Brief Introduction) -- Truncated History of Cost-Benefit Analysis -- Introducing Arden -- 3. Economist's Punch Line: Supply and Demand -- Nuts and Bolts of Supply and Demand -- Supply, Demand, and Conservation -- Can We Conclude That Supply and Demand Are Important for Conservation? -- 4. Ecosystem Services: Where Nature Meets Human Welfare -- Nature of Goods -- What Are Ecosystem Services? -- Supply, Demand, and Externalities in Arden -- Cost-Benefit Analysis and Ecosystem Services -- 5. Up Valuation Techniques: How to Estimate Nature's Benefits -- Why Value Nature? Why Not? -- Overview of Valuation Techniques -- I'll Be Watching You: Revealed Preference Methods -- Ask and You Shall Receive (Data): Stated Preference Methods -- Transferring the Benefit -- 6. Institutions: Setting the Rules for Conservation -- What Are Institutions? -- Regulation as an Institutional Arrangement -- Market-Based Institutional Arrangements -- Regulation or Markets, Regulation and Markets, or Neither -- Payments for Ecosystem Services in Arden and the Real World -- 7. Scaling Up and Getting Real: Managing Complex Landscapes with Multiple Goals -- Arden's Apex Predator -- Threats to Tigers and Other Biodiversity in Arden -- Demand for Tiger Body Parts -- Demand for Living Tigers -- Costs of Tiger Conservation -- Systematically Evaluating the Costs and Benefits of Tiger Conservation -- 8. Few Wrinkles and Time: How Time, Human Behavior, and Distribution Issues Affect Decision Making -- Operational Issues, or Some Things We Might Have Made Look Simpler than They Really Are -- Human Behavior -- Time and Ethics -- Where's the Macro? -- What Do We Do Now?.