Knowledge about a Species' Conservation Status and Funding for its Preservation: Analysis

Clement Tisdell

No 55065, Economics, Ecology and Environment Working Papers from University of Queensland, School of Economics

Abstract: Using a species’ population to measure its conservation status, this note explores how an increase in knowledge about this status would change the public’s willingness to donate funds for its conservation. This is done on the basis that the relationship between the level of donations and a species’ conservation status satisfies stated general mathematical properties. This level of donation increases, on average, with greater knowledge of a species’ conservation status if it is endangered, but falls if it is secure. Game theory and other theory is used to show how exaggerating the degree of endangerment of a species can be counterproductive for conservation.

Keywords: Environmental; Economics; and; Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 10
Date: 2005-06
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.55065

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