TY  - BOOK
AU  - Levitt,James N.
AU  - Bergen,Lydia K.
TI  - From Walden to Wall Street: frontiers of conservation finance 
SN  - 9781597260305
AV  - QH77.N56 F76 2005eb
U1  - 333.72 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Washington, DC
PB  - Island Press
KW  - Habitat conservation
KW  - North America
KW  - Finance
KW  - Biodiversity conservation
KW  - Conservation of Natural Resources
KW  - economics
KW  - Habitat (Écologie)
KW  - Conservation
KW  - Amérique du Nord
KW  - Finances
KW  - Biodiversité
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
KW  - Development
KW  - Sustainable Development
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - NATURE
KW  - Environmental Conservation & Protection
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-209) and index; Financial innovation for conservation : an American tradition; James N. Levitt --; Conservation finance viewed as a system : tackling the financial challenge; Patrick Coady --; Contours of conservation finance in the United States at the turn of the twenty-first century; Frank Casey --; State and local government funding of land conservation : what is the full potential?; Ernest Cook and Matt Zieper --; External revolving loan funds : expanding interim financing for land conservation; Mary McBryde, Peter R. Stein, and Story Clark --; Employing limited development strategies to finance land conservation and community-based development projects; Ned Sullivan and Steve Rosenberg --; Expanding the frontiers of conservation finance; Kevin W. Schuyler --; Transferable state tax credits as a land conservation incentive; Philip M. Hocker --; Payrolls versus Pickerels Redux : a story of economic revitalization and timberland conservation using new markets tax credits; Steve Weems --; Mainstreaming environmental markets; Adam Davis --; The gray and the green : the built infrastructure and conservation investment; Jeffery T. More --; Financing private lands : conservation and management through conservation incentives in the farm bill / Robert Bonnie; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010
N2  - Annotation; In the absence of innovation in the field of conservation finance, a daunting funding gap faces conservationists aiming to protect America's system of landscapes that provide sustainable resources, water, wildlife habitat, and recreational amenities. Experts estimate that the average annual funding gap will be between US$1.9 billion and US$7.7 billion over the next forty years. This book brings together the experience of more than a dozen pioneering conservation finance practitioners to address this crucial issue
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