Wildlife Conservation Payments to Address Habitat Fragmentation and Disease Risks
| dc.creator | Horan, Richard D. | |
| dc.creator | Shogren, Jason F. | |
| dc.creator | Gramig, Benjamin M. | |
| dc.date | 2017-04-01T20:17:10Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-09T03:34:06Z | |
| dc.description | We build a stylized model to gain insights into the application of conservation payments to protect endangered species in the face of wildlife-livestock disease risks and habitat fragmentation. Greater connectivity of habitat creates an endogenous trade-off. More connectedness ups the chance that populations of endangered species will grow more rapidly; however, greater connectivity also increases the likelihood that diseases will spread more quickly. We analyze subsidies for both habitat connectedness and livestock vaccination. We find the cost-effective policy is to initially subsidize habitat connectivity rather than vaccinations; this increases habitat contiguousness, which eventually also increases disease risks. Once habitat is sufficiently connected, disease risks increase to such a degree to make a vaccination subsidy worthwhile. Highly connected habitat requires nearly all the government budget be devoted to vaccination subsidies. The result of the conservation payments is significantly increased species abundance, for a wide range of initial levels of habitat connectedness. | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.22004/ag.econ.21076 | |
| dc.identifier | https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/21076/files/sp06ho02.pdf | |
| dc.identifier | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/21076 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/535351 | |
| dc.language | eng | |
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| dc.source | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/21076 | |
| dc.title | Wildlife Conservation Payments to Address Habitat Fragmentation and Disease Risks | |
| dc.type | Text |