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Behaviours of Conservation Organizations and their Environmental Implications. Analysis based on New (and not so new) Institutional Economics

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Clem Tisdell () (School of Economics, The University of Queensland, Brisbane 4072, Australia)

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This article draws mostly (but not entirely) on new institutional economics to consider the likely behaviours of non-government conservation organizations and the implications of these behaviours for biodiversity conservation. It considers how institutional factors may result in behaviour of conservation NGOs diverging from their objectives, including their support for biodiversity conservation; examines aspects of rent capture and conservation alliances; specifies social factors that may restrict the diversity of species supported by NGOs for conservation; considers bounded rationality in relation to the operation of conservation NGOs; and using game theory, shows how competition between NGOs for funding can result in economic inefficiencies and narrow the diversity of species supported for conservation. It also considers generally how the social role of conservation NGOs might be assessed.

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Paper provided by Division of Resource Economics, Department of Agricultural Economics and Social Sciences, Humboldt University Berlin in its series ICAR Discussion Papers (Institutional Change in Agriculture and Natural Resources) with number 1907.

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Date of creation: Dec 2007
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Keywords: Australia; biodiversity conservation; bounded rationality; civil society; Common Agricultural Policy; European Union; Landcare; mixed goods; new institutional economics; New Zealand; NGO's; principal-and-agent problem; political acceptability;

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Q00 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - General - - - General
Q2 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation
Q5 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics
Q57 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Ecological Economics
Z13 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Social Norms and Social Capital; Social Networks Economic Anthropology

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  5. Timothy Moss, 2005. "?Dissecting Institutions? - Bestandteile einer institutionellen Konfiguration am Beispiel der Wasserwirtschaft," ICAR Discussion Papers (Institutional Change in Agriculture and Natural Resources) 0705, Division of Resource Economics, Department of Agricultural Economics and Social Sciences, Humboldt University Berlin. [Downloadable!]
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  7. Tisdell, Clem, 2003. "Valuation of Tourism's Natural Resources," Economics, Ecology and Environment Working Papers 48962, University of Queensland, School of Economics. [Downloadable!]
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  1. Tisdell, Clem, 2008. "BEHAVIOURS OF CONSERVATION ORGANIZATIONS AND THEIR ENVIRONMENTAL IMPLICATIONS. Analysis based on New (and not so new) Institutional Economics," Institutional Change in Agriculture and Natural Resources Discussion Papers 6185, Humboldt University Berlin, Institute for Agricultural Economic and Social Sciences. [Downloadable!]
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