Species At Risk

by Shogren, Jason F.

• ISBN13: 9780292705975
• ISBN10: 0292705972
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-03-16
• Publisher: Univ of Texas Pr

Summary

"This book presents the most comprehensive discussion of the economics and practicalities of incentive instruments that could be used for endangered and threatened species conservation. I believe the book will have broad appeal to lawyers, biologists, economists, and others working in the field of endangered species, as well as to general readers with an interest in conservation." --J. B. Ruhl, Florida State University, author of The Law of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Management Protecting endangered species of animals and plants is a goal that almost everyone supports in principle--but in practice private landowners have often opposed the regulations of the Endangered Species Act, which, they argue, unfairly limits their right to profit from their property. To encourage private landowners to cooperate voluntarily in species conservation and to mitigate the economic burden of doing so, the government and nonprofit land trusts have created a number of incentive programs, including conservation easements, leases, habitat banking, habitat conservation planning, safe harbors, candidate conservation agreements, and the "no surprise" policy. In this book, lawyers, economists, political scientists, historians, and zoologists come together to assess the challenges and opportunities for using economic incentives as compensation for protecting species at risk on private property. They examine current programs to see how well they are working and also offer ideas for how these programs could be more successful. Their ultimate goal is to better understand how economic incentive schemes can be made both more cost-effective and more socially acceptable, while respecting a wide range of views regarding opportunity costs, legal standing, biological effectiveness, moral appropriateness, and social context.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
MIKE SULLIVAN and the members of the board of the Institute of Environmental and Natural Resources, University of Wyoming
1. Introduction	1	(22)
JASON F. SHOGREN
PART I. Current and Proposed Incentive Options for Species Protection on Private Lands	23	(106)
2. The Endangered Species Act and Its Current Set of Incentive Tools for Species Protection	25	(40)
DEBRA DONAHUE
3. An Economic Review of Incentive Mechanisms to Protect Species on Private Lands	65	(64)
GREGORY M. PARKHURST AND JASON F. SHOGREN
PART II. Challenges to Using Economic Incentives for Species Protection	129	(104)
4. Endangered Species Protection and Ways of Life: Beyond Economy and Ecology	131	(16)
FRIEDA KNOBLOCH AND R. MCGREGGOR CAWLEY
5. A Critical Examination of Economic Incentives to Promote Conservation	147	(26)
DEBRA DONAHUE
6. Appraising the Conservation Value of Private Lands	173	(18)
STEVE W. BUSKIRK AND SAMANTHA M. WISELY
7. Markets for Conserving Biodiversity Habitat: Principles and Practice	191	(26)
THOMAS D. CROCKER
8. The Role of Private Information in Designing Conservation Incentives for Property Owners	217	(16)
JASON F. SHOGREN, RODNEY B.W. SMITH, AND JOHN TSCHIRHART
PART III. Economic Incentives for ESA Reauthorization	233	(24)
9. Evaluating the Incentive Tools	235	(22)
GREGORY M. PARKHURST AND JASON F. SHOGREN
About the Authors	257	(2)
Index	259