Recent studies that incorporate the spatial distributions of biological benefits and economic
costs in conservation planning have shown that limited budgets can achieve substantially …

Conservation biologists, policy makers, and citizens have identified the protection of native
ecosystems in low‐income nations as a global social objective. Among the more popular …

Human behavior is responsible for many of our greatest environmental challenges. The
accumulated effects of many individual and household decisions have major negative impacts …

… Contributed equally to this work with: Paul J Ferraro, Subhrendu K Pattanayak … (Rare
Pride campaigns have recently begun using control communities to evaluate the effects of …

… Conrad JC, Ferraro PJ, “Habitat conservation: The dynamics of direct and indirect
payments” (Environmental Policy Working Paper Ser. 2001–005, Andrew Young School of …

Global efforts to reduce tropical deforestation rely heavily on the establishment of protected
areas. Measuring the effectiveness of these areas is difficult because the amount of …

It has become essential in policy and decision‐making circles to think about the economic
benefits (in addition to moral and scientific motivations) humans derive from well‐functioning …

Many of the services supplied by nature are externalities. Economic theory suggests that some
form of subsidy or contracting between the beneficiaries and the providers could result in …

Policymakers are increasingly using norm-based messages to influence individual decision
making. We partner with a metropolitan water utility to implement a natural field experiment …

We identified 100 scientific questions that, if answered, would have the greatest impact on
conservation practice and policy. Representatives from 21 international organizations, …