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From Walden to Wall Street [electronic resource] : frontiers of conservation finance / editor, James N. Levitt ; assistant editor, Lydia K. Bergen.

Contributor(s): Levitt, James N | Bergen, Lydia K | ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Washington, DC : Island Press, c2005Description: xxvi, 235 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.Subject(s): Habitat conservation -- North America -- Finance | Biodiversity conservation -- North America -- FinanceGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 333.72 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
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.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 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.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2006. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.