From Walden to Wall Street frontiers of conservation finance / [electronic resource] : editor, James N. Levitt ; assistant editor, Lydia K. Bergen. - Washington, DC : Island Press, c2005. - xxvi, 235 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-209) and index.

Financial innovation for conservation : an American tradition / Conservation finance viewed as a system : tackling the financial challenge / Contours of conservation finance in the United States at the turn of the twenty-first century / State and local government funding of land conservation : what is the full potential? / External revolving loan funds : expanding interim financing for land conservation / Employing limited development strategies to finance land conservation and community-based development projects / Expanding the frontiers of conservation finance / Transferable state tax credits as a land conservation incentive / Payrolls versus Pickerels Redux : a story of economic revitalization and timberland conservation using new markets tax credits / Mainstreaming environmental markets / The gray and the green : the built infrastructure and conservation investment / Financing private lands : conservation and management through conservation incentives in the farm bill / Robert Bonnie. James N. Levitt -- Patrick Coady -- Frank Casey -- Ernest Cook and Matt Zieper -- Mary McBryde, Peter R. Stein, and Story Clark -- Ned Sullivan and Steve Rosenberg -- Kevin W. Schuyler -- Philip M. Hocker -- Steve Weems -- Adam Davis -- Jeffery T. More --


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






Habitat conservation--Finance.--North America
Biodiversity conservation--Finance.--North America


Electronic books.

QH77.N56 / F76 2005eb

333.72