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SUBMITTER: Kovacs K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3679083 | biostudies-literature | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kovacs Kent K Polasky Stephen S Nelson Erik E Keeler Bonnie L BL Pennington Derric D Plantinga Andrew J AJ Taff Steven J SJ
PloS one 20130611 6
We evaluate the return on investment (ROI) from public land conservation in the state of Minnesota, USA. We use a spatially-explicit modeling tool, the Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Tradeoffs (InVEST), to estimate how changes in land use and land cover (LULC), including public land acquisitions for conservation, influence the joint provision and value of multiple ecosystem services. We calculate the ROI of a public conservation acquisition as the ratio of the present value of ec ...[more]