Compensation payments for habitat heterogeneity: Existence, efficiency, and fairness considerations

摘要: Abstract Compensation payments for voluntary conservation measures have become an important tool biodiversity worldwide. Each year substantial financial resources are spent on such measures, particularly in the context of agri-environmental schemes. In Europe, a debate has started whether this money is effectively. response to it been suggested that portfolio leading habitat heterogeneity be implemented. Although heterogeneous analysed literature, never questioned can designed way encourages enough land users carry out each measure within measures. The purpose paper demonstrate do not always exist. Moreover, cases where exist payment scheme may require overcompensation users, posing limit both efficiency and fairness considerations.