Conventional agri-environmental schemes (AES) have been criticized for failing to exploit
conservation synergies that could be obtained from spatial coordination of conservation …

The concept of ecosystem services (ES) has risen to prominence based on its promise to
vastly improve environmental decision‐making and to represent nature's many benefits to …

Auctions offer potential cost-effectiveness improvements over other mechanisms for
payments for ecosystem services (PES) contract allocation. However, evidence-based …

Environmental management has increasingly focused on promoting social engagement in
biodiversity and ecosystem services conservation as a way to foster sustainability. However …

Agricultural and applied economists have begun routinely using behavioral and
experimental economics tools to answer important questions about agri-environmental …

Agglomeration bonus schemes are envisioned to incentivize the connectivity of habitat
conservation across landowners. Assuming full cooperation among landowners at the …

The Agglomeration Bonus is a Payment for Ecosystem Services scheme that focuses on
achieving spatially‐coordinated land use across neighboring, privately‐owned agricultural …

The incorporation of an agglomeration bonus payment to encourage spatial coordination in
auction mechanisms to allocate payments for ecosystem services (PES) contracts has been …

This paper considers the problem of designing PES-type contracts to encourage
participation and spatial coordination amongst private forest owners in Finland. The aim of …

How best to achieve spatially-coordinated environmental outcomes using reverse auctions
has become a research question of growing interest. This paper makes a first attempt to …