0000000000415459
AUTHOR
Tanja Hämäläinen
La traduction du passif français en finnois dans les dossiers du Parlement européen
Ecological Efficiency of Voluntary Conservation of Boreal-Forest Biodiversity
Current networks of protected areas are biased in many countries toward landscapes of low productivity. Voluntary conservation incentives have been suggested as a socially acceptable way to supplement existing networks with more productive, privately owned areas of high priority for nature conservation. The limited resources committed to nature conservation demand cost-efficiency. Efficiency, however, depends not only on costs incurred to society from alternative ways of maintaining biodiversity but also on ecological values that can be captured. We examined the ecological efficiency of the new market-based voluntary program to preserve forest habitats on private land in southwestern Finlan…