Integrating economic costs into the analysis of flexible conservation management strategies

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Flexible conservation management, where measures are selected in each decision period and depending on the current state of the ecological system, are generally perceived as superior to fixed management, where the same measure is applied in each decision period independent of the current state of the system. In past comparisons of fixed and flexible conservation strategies the additional costs that arise only in flexible strategies have usually been ignored. In this paper we present a framework to integrate these 'costs of flexible management' into the evaluation of flexible conservation strategies. Using the example of an endangered butterfly species we demonstrate that the costs of flexible management may reverse the rank order of flexible and fixed conservation strategies, such that fixed strategies may lead to better ecological results than flexible ones for the same financial budget.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: UFZ Discussion Paper ; No. 20/2005

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft
• Subject: conservation ; ecological-economic model ; extinction ; flexible management ; Biodiversität ; Flexibilität ; Kosten-Nutzen-Analyse ; Theorie

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Drechsler, Martin ; Johst, Karin ; Wätzold, Frank ; Westphal, Michael
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): UFZ-Umweltforschungszentrum Leipzig-Halle
• (where): Leipzig
• (when): 2005

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/45228
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