Money for nothing? A call for empirical evaluation of biodiversity conservation investments

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dc.contributor.authorFerraro, Paul J.en
dc.contributor.authorPattanayak, S. K.en
dc.contributor.departmentSustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (SANREM) Knowledgebaseen
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-19T19:31:14Zen
dc.date.available2016-04-19T19:31:14Zen
dc.date.issued2006en
dc.description.abstractFor far too long, conservation scientists and practitioners have depended on intuition and anecdote to guide the design of conservation investments. If we want to ensure that our limited resources make a difference, we must accept that testing hypotheses about what policies protect biological diversity requires the same scientific rigor and state-of-the-art methods that we invest in testing ecological hypotheses. Our understanding of the ecological aspects of ecosystem conservation rests, in part, on well-designed empirical studies. In contrast, our understanding of the way in which policies can prevent species loss and ecosystem degradation rests primarily on case-study narratives from field initiatives that are not designed to answer the question "Does the intervention work better than no intervention at all?"en
dc.description.notesPES-1 (Payments for Environmental Services Associate Award)en
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier3367en
dc.identifier.citationPLoS Biology 4(4): 482-488en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0040105en
dc.identifier.issn1544-9173en
dc.identifier.issn1545-7885en
dc.identifier.other3367_Ferraro2006_Money_for_Nothing_Evaluating.pdfen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/67469en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.rightsCopyright 2006 Ferraro and Pattanayak. This is an open-access article, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.en
dc.subjectResearch planningen
dc.subjectPayments for environmental servicesen
dc.subjectProgram planningen
dc.subjectConservation strategyen
dc.subjectConservation planningen
dc.subjectConservationen
dc.subjectBiodiversity conservationen
dc.subjectProgram evaluationen
dc.subjectConservation investmentsen
dc.subjectConservation interventionsen
dc.subjectEmpirical analysisen
dc.subjectMonitoringen
dc.subjectCounterfactual outcomesen
dc.titleMoney for nothing? A call for empirical evaluation of biodiversity conservation investmentsen
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden
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