Climate Change and the Cost-Effective Governance Mode for Biodiversity Conservation

Abstract Climate change poses a key challenge for biodiversity conservation. Conservation agencies, in particular, have to decide where carry out conservation measures landscape enable species move with climate change. Moreover, they can choose two main governance modes: (1) buy land implement themselves on that land, or (2) compensate landowners voluntarily carrying their land. We develop dynamic, conceptual ecological-economic model investigate the influence of changes climatic parameters cost-effectiveness these modes and specific patch selection strategies (price prioritisation, abundance suitability direction prioritisation). identify five effects explain performance combinations mode strategy find depends is thus case-specific.