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  • Essays on the economics of wildlife management

    Creator:
    Rashford, Benjamin S.
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    Wildlife managers are on the front lines of the effort to conserve wildlife and are required to do so cost-effectively. This dissertation consists of three manuscripts that integrate economics and ecology to inform cost-effective wildlife management. The first and second manuscripts focus on identifying cost-effective wildlife management plans. The third...
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    . The total cost function, C(w,y), which reports the minimum total cost of achieving any recruit

  • Essays on natural endowments, conservation policy, and community characteristics

    Creator:
    Lin, Haixia
    Abstract:
    To protect and restore environmental quality, efficient and effective conservation policies are needed. Designing policies require a sound understanding of the contributions of natural endowments to economic vitality, and the performance and impacts of conservation programs. This dissertation consists of three essays, and addresses several issues relevant to these two...
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    location z, C is the cost of converting one acre of farmland to development, r is the interest rate, E