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1 online resource (xxvi, 235 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Financial innovation for conservation : an American tradition / James N. Levitt -- Conservation finance viewed as a system : tackling the financial challenge / Patrick Coady -- Contours of conservation finance in the United States at the turn of the twenty-first century / Frank Casey -- State and local government funding of land conservation : what is the full potential? / Ernest Cook and Matt Zieper -- External revolving loan funds : expanding interim financing for land conservation / Mary McBryde, Peter R. Stein, and Story Clark -- Employing limited development strategies to finance land conservation and community-based development projects / Ned Sullivan and Steve Rosenberg -- Expanding the frontiers of conservation finance / Kevin W. Schuyler -- Transferable state tax credits as a land conservation incentive / Philip M. Hocker -- Payrolls versus Pickerels Redux : a story of economic revitalization and timberland conservation using new markets tax credits / Steve Weems -- Mainstreaming environmental markets / Adam Davis -- The gray and the green : the built infrastructure and conservation investment / Jeffery T. More -- Financing private lands : conservation and management through conservation incentives in the farm bill / Robert Bonnie |
| Summary |
Annotation In the absence of innovation in the field of conservation finance, a daunting funding gap faces conservationists aiming to protect America's system of landscapes that provide sustainable resources, water, wildlife habitat, and recreational amenities. Experts estimate that the average annual funding gap will be between US$1.9 billion and US$7.7 billion over the next forty years. This book brings together the experience of more than a dozen pioneering conservation finance practitioners to address this crucial issue |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-209) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Habitat conservation -- North America -- Finance
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Biodiversity conservation -- North America -- Finance
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Conservation of Natural Resources -- economics
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- Sustainable Development.
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NATURE -- Environmental Conservation & Protection.
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Biodiversity conservation -- Finance
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North America. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85092455
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North America |
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North America
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Levitt, James N.
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Bergen, Lydia K.
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| LC no. |
2005022607 |
| ISBN |
9781597260305 |
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1597260304 |
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9781597260299 |
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1597260290 |
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9781429495325 |
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1429495324 |
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9781597269193 |
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1597269190 |
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1597268747 |
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9781597268745 |
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