Ensuring that farmers' ex ante preferences are accounted for is crucial for the design of
effective agri‐environmental contracts. We present a systematic review of 127 discrete …

Abstract The Bashang Plateau, which is an ecologically fragile agro-pastoral zone in Hebei
Province in China, plays an important role in protecting the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region …

Water markets are promoted as a demand-management strategy for addressing water
scarcity. Although there is an increasing literature on the institutional preconditions required …

Prescribed burning is important for the ecological health of fire-dependent forests, however,
there is little economic research examining landowner preferences for living with fire in the …

Private lands are increasingly targeted for ecological restoration and conservation initiatives
in high-income countries. However, the fragmented nature of private land tenure, the large …

To effectively conserve forests and the ecosystem services they provide, mechanisms are
needed to promote conservation on private lands that reduce forest fragmentation, secure …

Abstract Case 2 (profile case) best–worst scaling (BWS) is a question-based survey method
for measuring preferences for attribute levels. Several existing R packages help to …

Conflict over land use is one of the challenges faced by large carnivore conservation
programs in human-disturbed landscapes. Designing effective conservation strategies …

Forest carbon sequestration, resulting in increased carbon storage in forests, is an effective
tool for climate change mitigation. Nonindustrial private forest (NIPF) landowner participation …

In the southern United States the country's top wood-producing region, factors such as
intergenerational land transfer and population spillover from urban areas have resulted in …