Biodiversity offset markets: What are they really? An empirical approach to wetland mitigation banking

Anne-Charlotte Vaissière and Harold Levrel

Ecological Economics, 2015, vol. 110, issue C, 81-88

Abstract: •Mitigation banking is a hybrid form halfway between a market and a hierarchy.•Its features are well-adapted to implement public policy dealing with biodiversity.•It is a useful decentralized regulation tool for biodiversity conservation.

Keywords: Biodiversity offset; Market; Hybrid form; Mitigation banking; Wetlands (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2015.01.002

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