The background for this request, and the type of information we would like to gather, are detailed below. However, population and technology driven development, rising incomes and their combined, voracious appetites for land and other natural resources ensure that these conflicts, now, will be ever with us and that their severity can only increase. They are discrete and discontinuous, and often cast alternative courses in the starkest terms. Furthermore, they are not always easy to enforce, even in the most developed countries. As a result, developed countries have for quite some time turned to a much larger and expanding role for various types of economic incentives.
Incentives can be very powerful and have the advantage over controls that they are continuous.
As a result, we believe it is not at all beforetimes to devote considerable energies and resources to accelerating the processes whereby techniques that have proved effective in developed countries are adapted for use in less-developed ones. The difficulties in extending such techniques to less-developed countries are legion and great. Our Goals We are looking for examples of the use of economic incentives to improve land use decisions and better regulate the aforementioned conflicts in less-developed countries. We are very cognizant that these descriptions are quite cryptic, and that this may make it difficult for you to judge whether you may or may not have an example applicable and of potential interest. He will take over and guide you from there.