Compensating Environmental Losses Versus Creating Environmental Gains : Implications for Biodiversity Offsets

2017 - Ecological Economics

In the economic literature on themotivations underlying voluntary contributions to environmental public goods, little attention is granted to the way the overall objective of the environmental program is framed. A program which contributes to an increase ofenvironmental quality can be perceived dif…

Tags: Choice experiment , Agri-environmental contract , Biodiversity offset , Behavioral economics