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Comment on “Using ecological thresholds to evaluate the costs and benefits of set-asides in a biodiversity hotspot”

Author(s) -

Christopher Finney

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

science

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 12.556

H-Index - 1186

eISSN - 1095-9203

pISSN - 0036-8075

DOI - 10.1126/science.aaa0916

Subject(s) - biodiversity , biodiversity hotspot , hotspot (geology) , environmental science , ecology , biology , geology , geophysics

Banks-Leiteet al . (Reports, 29 August 2014, p. 1041) conclude that a large-scale program to restore the Brazilian Atlantic Forest using payments for environmental services (PES) is economically feasible. They do not analyze transaction costs, which are quantified infrequently and incompletely in the literature. Transaction costs can exceed 20% of total project costs and should be included in future research.

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