Indices for Working Land Conservation: Form Affects Function

摘要: Using environmental indices (EIs) to rank applications for enrollment in conservation programs is becoming common practice. However, there little guidance on how it should be done. The adopted by existing have often been linear, using weighted averages of parameters without explicit consideration whether they represent a reliable preference ordering states. Our article investigates society's weights addressing multiple resource concerns and functional forms EIs can influence program outcomes. We propose means which are observed from policymaker actions. Weights determined combined with biophysical crop simulation data create an index (EI) rotations. This developed alternative function score efforts working cropland measure their effect