Conservation capital in the Americas
Subtitle: exemplary conservation finance initiatives
By: editor, James N. Levitt ; assistant editor, Shannon Meyer
Contributors: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Publisher: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9781558442078
Notes: Papers presented at a conference held in Valdivia, Chile, in Jan. 2009.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The growing significance of conservation: the Chilean experience / Antonio Lara and Rocío Urrutia; title: Meeting the conservation challenge in New England / David Foster; title: The Massachusetts Community Preservation Act: a case study in fostering intergovernmental partnership in conservation finance / Matthew Zieper; title: The private lands conservation initiative in Chile / Henry Tepper and Victoria Alonso; title: Financing conservation through limited development / Jeffrey C. Milder; title: The Caral Archeological site and Supe Valley restoration / José Gonzales and Hermilio Rosas; title: Eco-palms: a case study of the development of specialized markets for certified nontimber forest products / James N. Levitt and Deidre Peroff; title: Conservation finance in the Galápagos Islands: capitalizing the "missing middle" / Brian Milder; title: "Rafting in Valdivia": the Valdivian Coastal Reserve and beyond / Greg Fishbein; title: Anatomy of a finance program: lessons from a conservation leader / Kim Eilliman and Peter Howell; title: Ecuador ChoCO₂ conservation carbon project: conservation international / Ben Vitale, Tannya Lozada, and Luis Suárez; title: The Van Eck Forest: carbon markets and the new economic paradigm for forest sustainability / Laurie Wayburn; title: Markets for ecosystem services and reclaiming the Great Dismal Swamp / Shannon Meyer; title: Working with landowners to provide ecosystem services: Costa Rica's groundbreaking experiment / Shannon Meyer.