Vernal pools are far more important for providing ecosystem services than one would predict based on their small size. However, prevailing resource-management strategies are not effectively conserving pools and other small natural features on private lands. Solutions are complicated by tensions between private property and societal rights, uncertainties over resource location and function, dive...

Significant advances have taken place in the recognition of property rights in areas of occupied by local and indigenous communities, particularly in tropical forest areas known for their conservation value. In the Brazilian Amazon, for instance, these areas correspond to 44% of the region today. The figure is even higher for areas of remnants of Atlantic forest along the Southern coast of the ...

Conservation resources have become increasingly limited and, along with social, cultural and political complexities, this shortfall frequently challenges effectiveness in conservation. Because conservation can be costly, efforts are often only initiated after a species has declined below a critical threshold and/or when statutory protection is mandated. However, implementing conservation proact...

We build a workable game of common-property resource extraction under rational Bayesian learning about the renewal prospects of a resource. We uncover the impact of exogenously shifting the prior beliefs of each player on the response functions of others. What we …nd about the role of environmental conservation campaigns is paradoxical. To the extent that such campaigns instill overly high pess...