Conservation Priorities when Species Interact: the Noah's Ark Metaphor Revisited

Pierre Courtois, Charles Figuieres and Chloé Mulier
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No 2014.02, Working Papers from FAERE - French Association of Environmental and Resource Economists

Abstract: This note incorporates ecological interactions into the Noah's Arch problem [M.L. Weitzman, The Noah's Arch problem, Econometrica 66(6) (1998) 1279-1298]. In doing so, we arrive at a general model for ranking in situ conservation projects accounting for species interrelations and provide an operational cost-effectiveness method for the selection of best preserving diversity projects under a limited budget constraint.

Keywords: Conservation priorities; Ecological interactions; Biodiversity; Weitzman's ranking criterion (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C6 Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 14 pages
Date: 2014-05
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Published in PLoS ONE 9(9): e106073. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0106073.

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