Financial incentives may aid in conservation if they broaden the numbers and types of
landowners who engage in protection and conservation management on private land. We …

Private land conservation (PLC) programs often provide financial incentives to motivate and
enable landowners to engage in conservation. However, few studies have explored the …

Preservation of biodiversity and continued provision of ecosystem services increasingly
relies on environmental conservation on private lands. Despite a multitude of past studies …

Continued threats to global biodiversity have stimulated interest in the private purchase of
land for conservation. Though not a new phenomenon, private land conservation appears to …

Payments for ecosystem services (PES) are increasingly being implemented worldwide as
conservation instruments that provide conditional economic incentives to landowners for a …

Voluntary incentive programs are a keystone policy tool for increasing private landowner
conservation behavior. Although landowner participation in conservation incentive programs …

Biodiversity worldwide has been declining rapidly in recent decades. Acquiring land for
protection has been used as a main strategy to halt this decline. Conservation organizations …

There is growing use of economic incentives such as Payments for Ecosystem Services
(PES) to encourage sustainable land management. An important critique is that such …

Private land conservation has become an important element of the global conservation
portfolio. Often, landowners are encouraged to participate in private land conservation with …

Agri-environmental incentive programs seek to compensate farmers for changes to enhance
ecosystem services and/or biodiversity, yet enrolling participants is a common challenge …