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The Matrix: Mapping Ecosystem Service Markets
The once-radical concept of saving the environment by documenting the economic value of environmental services and then getting industry to ...
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Conservation & Biodiversity Banking:
Conservation and Biodiversity Banking is the first comprehensive book on species mitigation banking. It provides practical guidance, tools, case studies, ...
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Banking on Conservation 2007: Species and Wetland Mitigation Banking
Here at the Ecosystem Marketplace, we have been covering the twists, turns and straight-aways of the mitigation/conservation banking industry in ...
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Banking on Conservation: Species and Wetland Mitigation Banking
Here at the Ecosystem Marketplace, we are well into our second year of covering the twists, turns and straight-aways of ...
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Books, Papers and Reports
Design of U.S. Habitat Banking Systems to Support the Conservation of Wildlife Habitat and At-Risk Species, Environmental Law Institute, 2008
This publication is a project of the Environmental Law Institute (ELI) and Environmental Defense (ED). Funding was provided by a ...
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Conservation Banking, the Opportunity for Forest Land Managers (Carroll, 2007)
An article written to explain the opportunity that conservation banking holds for forest land manager. Appeared in the Society ...
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Mitigation of Impacts to Fish and Wildlife Habitat: Estimating Costs and Identifying Opportunities, Environmental Law Institute, 2007
Every year, human activities cause significant harm to fish and wildlife habitat and the environment. Many of the impacts to ...
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Backgrounder: US Conservation Banking, MarketWatch, Ecosystem Marketplace
US Conservation banking is enabled by the legal requirements of the United States Endangered Species Act (ESA). Specifically, section pub6 ...
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Conservation Banking: Incentives for Stewardship (USFWS, 2004)
Conservation banks are permanently protected privately or publicly ownedlands that are managed for endangered, threatened, and other at-risk species. A ...
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Second Nature Report, Conservation Banking Chapter (Defenders of Wildlife, 2003)
In the U.S., a variety of laws require that any transportation projects that receive federal money compensate in some way ...
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Mitigation Banking as an Endangered Species Conservation Tool (Environmental Defense, 2001)
Mitigation banking is a tool now widely used in wetland conservation programs but is only beginning to be used in ...
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Biodiversity Offsets: Views, Experiences, and The Business Case (ten Kate et al 2004)
This report was written by Kerry ten Kate, Director, Investor Responsibility, Insight Investment; Joshua Bishop, Senior Advisor, Economics and Environment, ...
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Biodiversity Offsets – A Briefing Paper for the Mining Industry
Industry faces challenges as a result of its social, economic and environmental footprint. Since the mid 1990s, the mining industry ...
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Backgrounder: US Conservation Banking
Governing Entity: United States Fish and Wildlife Service Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
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Policy & Regulation
Guidance for the Establishment, Use, and Operation of Conservation Banks (USFWS 5/2/03)
This memorandum transmits guidance that will help Service personnel evaluate proposals to establish conservation banks (attached). This guidance provides a ...
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California Official Policy on Conservation Banks (CA EPA 4/7/95)
Ecosystem services are the goods and services that people obtain from our environment. These services include clean air and water, ...
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Threatened Species Conservation Amendment (Biodiversity Banking) Bill 2006 (NSW, Australia)
An Act to amend the Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995 to establish a biodiversity banking and offsets scheme;and to amend ...
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