Planning nature in urbanized countries. An analysis of monetary and non-monetary impacts of conservation policy scenarios in the Netherlands

Planning and conserving nature areas are challenging tasks in urbanized and intensively used countries like the Netherlands. This paper supports decision making and public policy debate about these tasks in both an empirical and a methodological way. Empirically, we explore policy alternatives by de...

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Main Authors: Frans J. Sijtsma, Willem G.M. van der Bilt, Arjen van Hinsberg, Bart de Knegt, Martijn van der Heide, Hans Leneman, René Verburg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2017-03-01
Series:Heliyon
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844016305424