Downward sloping demand for environmental amenities and international compensation: elephant conservation and strategic culling

E.H. Bulte; G.C. van Kooten

doi:10.1111/j.1574-0862.2002.tb00100.x

Downward sloping demand for environmental amenities and international compensation: elephant conservation and strategic culling

E.H. Bulte
, G.C. van Kooten

Agricultural Economics and Rural Policy

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Abstract

Conventional wisdom holds that monetary compensation for positive transboundary externalities will promote conservation of resource amenities. We demonstrate that, in the case of elephant conservation, international transfers may also result in strategic behavior by host countries, with adverse implications for global welfare and in situ stocks

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	15-22
Journal	Agricultural Economics
Volume	27
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1574-0862.2002.tb00100.x
Publication status	Published - 2002

Keywords

Declining marginal preservation value
Elephant conservation
International compensatory transfers
Strategic choice

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Downward sloping demand for environmental amenities and international compensation: elephant conservation and strategic culling

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