Buying environmental services from private landholders using auction mechanisms often involves repeated multi-unit procurement-type auctions. These can either be target-constrained or budget-constrained. Most of the theoretical literature has focused on the former, whereas government agencies have, for conservation purposes, mainly implemented the latter. This paper examines the predictive powe...

Global wetland loss has reduced biodiversity and ecosystem services. These declines have inspired many landholders to restore wetlands, but the success of these efforts remains unclear, in part, because quantifying services requires diverse methods. Here, we blend participatory mapping surveys, field measurements high-resolution models track from restored wetlands on private land. We ask: 1) Wh...

Conservation initiatives rarely achieve the scale required to respond ongoing biodiversity loss. Understanding what drives adoption of conservation provides key insights into how expand a necessary for effective outcomes. In this article, we identified characteristics initiatives, adopters, and context that influenced extensive Wildlife Management Units (UMAs) in Mexico. We interviewed 22 exper...

— Payments for environmental services programs use direct incentives to improve the environmental impacts of private land use decisions. An auction offers an approach to efficiently allocating contracts among least-cost landholders, which can improve the overall cost-effectiveness of the approach. However, experiences with auctions in developing country settings are limited. We compare the resu...

Landholders in rural Australia are increasing their use of computers and the Internet. In part, this is because of the increased availability of hardware, software and communications infrastructure at reasonable cost. However, it is unclear what all the benefits of adopting a new technology are. It may be that the primary benefits are simply cost reduction; for example, the time saved in financ...

Of the many factors which affect animal production, wildlife is one of the few which has rarely been considered by the Australian Society of Animal Production. A variety of non-domesticated mammals are closely associated with the livestock industries and those which cause production losses are referred to as vertebrate pests in this contract. In some States this definition is carried further by...