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Aligning 'public good' environmental stewardship with the landscape-scale: Adapting MBIs for private land conservation policy Cooke, B and Moon, K 2015, 'Aligning 'public good' environmental stewardship with the landscape-scale: Adapting MBIs for private land conservation policy', Ecological Economics, vol. 114, pp. 152-158. Document type: Journal Article Collection: Journal Articles Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size n2006055226.pdf Accepted Manuscript application/pdf 252.81KB Title Aligning 'public good' environmental stewardship with the landscape-scale: Adapting MBIs for private land conservation policy Author(s) Cooke, B Moon, K Year 2015 Journal name Ecological Economics Volume number 114 Start page 152 End page 158 Total pages 7 Publisher Elsevier BV Abstract Market-based instruments (MBIs) are rapidly becoming a dominant characteristic of the policy landscape for private land conservation in Australia and elsewhere. Price-based MBIs are considered attractive to landholders, who are provided with financial payments for the delivery of defined ecological outcomes on their land, and for policy-making, where ecological return on investment can be measured quantitatively. Consequently, MBIs are commonly used to promote competitive, individualized approaches to improve ecological values, framed around the property-scale. We are concerned that there is a tension between the property-centric focus of price-based MBI programs and the need for environmental management policy and practice to reflect landscape-scale social-ecological processes. Targeting MBI programs at individual properties could risk generating insufficient public good conservation benefits, if those programs fail to reflect the relationship between landscape-scale processes and property-scale conservation efforts. To remedy the neglect of the landscape scale in private land conservation MBI policy, we develop a definition of stewardship that directly connects landscape-scale ecological function to the 'public good' dimension of stewardship. We apply this over-arching definition to demonstrate how MBI programs can deliver on the goal of landscape-scale conservation, and to suggest when MBIs might not be well suited to achieving private land conservation objectives Subject Human Geography not elsewhere classified Environmental Management Keyword(s) Stewardship Private land conservation policy Market-based instruments Public good Landscape scale Collaborative management DOI - identifier 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2015.03.027 Copyright notice © 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved ISSN 0921-8009 Related Links Link Description http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2015.03.027 Link to Published Version   Versions Version Filter Type Tue, 29 Sep 2015, 13:41:33 EST Thu, 24 Nov 2016, 10:05:29 EST Wed, 31 Oct 2018, 08:49:00 EST Wed, 31 Oct 2018, 12:33:42 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 17 times in Thomson Reuters Web of Science Article | Citations Cited 11 times in Scopus Article | Citations Altmetric details: Access Statistics: 175 Abstract Views, 46 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Tue, 29 Sep 2015, 12:37:00 EST by Catalyst Administrator