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

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

The environmental benefits from Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) schemes can often
be enhanced if private land managers are induced to enrol land in a spatially coordinated …

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

Effectively supporting seasonal migratory species requires spatial and temporal
coordination of mechanisms to induce conservation, often across many public and private …

Native forest establishment is an important mechanism to sequester carbon, increase
biodiversity, prevent erosion, and improve water quality. Designing incentive programmes to …

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

Good governance is needed to foster good management of the environment. Yet, the link
between environmental governance and environmental management has received very little …

Innovations in precision agriculture now enable the identification of crop field patches whose
retirement offers high environmental benefits and the low opportunity cost of crop yield loss …

Auctions have attracted growing attention as bidding mechanisms for soliciting or allocating
payments for a wide range of ecosystem services (ES). This paper reviews the latest …