Habitat and Open Space at Risk of Land-Use Conversion: Targeting Strategies for Land Conservation

Adina M. Merenlender
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: David Allen Newburn

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2006, vol. 88, issue 1, 28-42

Abstract: Funds available to purchase land and easements for conservation purposes are limited. This article provides a targeting strategy for protecting multiple environmental benefits that includes heterogeneity in land costs and probability of land-use conversion, by incorporating spatially explicit land-use change and hedonic price models. This strategy is compared to two alternative strategies that omit either land cost or conversion threat. Based on dynamic programming and Monte Carlo simulations with alternating periods of conservation and development, we demonstrate that the positive correlation between land costs and probability of land-use conversion affects targeting efficiency using parcel data from Sonoma County, California. Copyright 2006, Oxford University Press.

Date: 2006
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