The money or the trees: What drives landholders’ participation in biodiverse carbon plantings?

摘要: Carbon farming programs typically aim to maximise landholder participation rates achieve desired environmental outcomes. This is critical for aiming tackle both climate change and biodiversity loss simultaneously, as in those schemes directly determines the level of carbon sequestered potential gains. Biodiverse planting a key private land conservation practice that needs active stakeholder involvement deliver successful policy design implementation. In this study we developed Bayesian Belief Network (BBN) biodiverse determine factors most likely influence program participation. An initial conceptual model was based on review literature. The refined through interviews with participating landholders other stakeholders and, finally, parameterised using expert-elicited information. Our results indicate are influenced by attractiveness identified values co-benefits (such conservation) rather than financial incentives. Scenario evaluation revealed providing combination incentives more flexible permanence options could increase adoption rate. Stacking or bundling credits combined contract agreements also These findings can assist development focusing aspects