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SUBMITTER: Nelson E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2474525 | biostudies-other | 2008 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Nelson Erik E Polasky Stephen S Lewis David J DJ Plantinga Andrew J AJ Lonsdorf Eric E White Denis D Bael David D Lawler Joshua J JJ
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20080709 28
We develop an integrated model to predict private land-use decisions in response to policy incentives designed to increase the provision of carbon sequestration and species conservation across heterogeneous landscapes. Using data from the Willamette Basin, Oregon, we compare the provision of carbon sequestration and species conservation under five simple policies that offer payments for conservation. We evaluate policy performance compared with the maximum feasible combinations of carbon sequest ...[more]