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Improving the Cost‐Effectiveness of Ecosystem Management: An Application to Waterfowl Production
Author(s) -
Rashford Benjamin S.,
Adams Richard M.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
american journal of agricultural economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.949
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1467-8276
pISSN - 0002-9092
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8276.2007.00984.x
Subject(s) - waterfowl , environmental resource management , production (economics) , resource (disambiguation) , wildlife conservation , wildlife , ecosystem , business , resource management (computing) , range (aeronautics) , natural resource economics , ecology , environmental science , economics , computer science , habitat , engineering , biology , computer network , macroeconomics , aerospace engineering
Species conservation is an important global policy issue. The design of cost‐effective species conservation programs requires resource managers to choose from a suite of conservation activities and sites. This article determines cost‐effective conservation strategies for waterfowl using a bioeconomic modeling framework, which is developed using a biological simulation model for waterfowl and regression analysis. The model accounts for ( a ) a broad range of land‐use and direct wildlife conservation activities, ( b ) the effect of landscape heterogeneity, and ( c ) interactions between conservation activities. Results indicate that accounting for the three factors listed above can improve the cost‐effectiveness of waterfowl conservation on agricultural land.