TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chomitz, Kenneth M.
AU  - Brandao, Antonia Salazar
AU  - Thomas, Timothy S.
TI  - Creating markets for habitat conservation when habitats are heterogeneous
U1  - 333.95 
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Washington, D. C.
PB  - World Bank
KW  - Habitat conservation - Brazil
KW  - Biological diversity conservation - Brazil
N2  - A tradable development rights (TDR) program focusing on biodiversity conservation faces a crucial problem defining which areas of habitat should be considered equivalent. Restricting the trading domain to a narrow area could boost the range of biodiversity conserved but could increase the opportunity cost of conservation. The issue is relevant to Brazil, where TDR-like programs are emerging. Current regulations require each rural property to maintain a forest reserve of at least 20 percent, but nascent policies allow some tradability of this obligation. The authors use a simple, spatially explicit model to simulate a hypothetical state-level program. They find that wider trading domains drastically reduce landholder costs of complying with this regulation and result in environmentally preferable landscapes. 

http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/318351468769881893/Creating-markets-for-habitat-conservation-when-habitats-are-heterogeneous
ER  -