Public policies intended to induce behavioral change, specifically incentives to reduce
interpersonal contacts or to “social distance,” increasingly play a prominent role in public …

In an effort to attenuate human‐wildlife conflict and promote conservation of charismatic
megafauna, compensation programs for wildlife damages have been implemented in many …

Current efforts to value ecosystem services have contributed little to the valuation of natural
capital, suggesting that in practice “nature is capital” primarily serves as a metaphor. We …

We evaluate how well environmental-economic models describe biodiversity loss and
conservation issues. Four types of economic models turn out to dominate economic …

We develop a model of hunting, farming and defensive action to study the environmental
and economic consequences of introducing a program to compensate peasants of a small …

This paper formulates a bio-economic model to analyze community incentives for wildlife
management under benefit-sharing programs like the Communal Areas Management …

We use a two‐state linear control model to examine the socially optimal management of
disease in a valuable wildlife population when diseased animals cannot be harvested …

Three independent literatures have contributed to the understanding of irreversibility in
economics. The first focuses on the future opportunities forgone by investments with …

Ayong Le Kama (J. Econ. Dyn. Control 25 (2001) 1911) combines within an interesting
model optimal saving (a la Ramsey) with optimal intertemporal renewable resource use a la …

This paper deals with policy mechanism designs for agri-environmental schemes when the
bio-physical processes are characterised by threshold effects. There is a threshold effect …