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Habitat conversion, information acquisition, and the conservation of biodiversity

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A. Batabyal

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We analyze two questions concerning the conservation of biodiversity in a dynamic and stochastic framework. First, given the link between natural habitats and biodiversity, when should a social planner stop the habitat conversion process? Second, what is the nexus between a social planner’s optimal conservation policy (OCP) and the length of this individual’s planning horizon? We obtain the following two results. First, the OCP calls for the social planner to wait a while, i.e., not act upon receipt of the first fraction of all utility packets. The social planner should then stop the habitat conversion process upon receipt of the first candidate packet. The probability that the use of this OCP will result in the conversion process being halted at the optimal point is Second, because the proportion of time for which it is optimal to wait before acting is fixed, longer planning horizons result in the conservation of relatively larger stocks of biodiversity.

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Paper provided by Utah State University, Department of Economics in its series Working Papers with number 2000-26.

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Keywords: Biodiversity; information; natural habitat; optimal stopping;

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Q28 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation - - - Government Policy
D81 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty

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