From Walden to Wall Street
Subtitle: frontiers of conservation finance
By: editor, James N. Levitt ; assistant editor, Lydia K. Bergen
Contributors: Levitt, James N; Bergen, Lydia K
Publisher: Island Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
Subjects: Habitat conservation -- North America -- Finance; Biodiversity conservation -- North America -- Finance
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-209) and index
Table of contents: title: Financial innovation for conservation : an American tradition / James N. Levitt; title: Conservation finance viewed as a system : tackling the financial challenge / Patrick Coady; title: Contours of conservation finance in the United States at the turn of the twenty-first century / Frank Casey; title: State and local government funding of land conservation : what is the full potential? / Ernest Cook and Matt Zieper; title: External revolving loan funds : expanding interim financing for land conservation / Mary McBryde, Peter R. Stein, and Story Clark; title: Employing limited development strategies to finance land conservation and community-based development projects / Ned Sullivan and Steve Rosenberg; title: Expanding the frontiers of conservation finance / Kevin W. Schuyler; title: Transferable state tax credits as a land conservation incentive / Philip M. Hocker; title: Payrolls versus Pickerels Redux : a story of economic revitalization and timberland conservation using new markets tax credits / Steve Weems; title: Mainstreaming environmental markets / Adam Davis; title: The gray and the green : The built infrastructure and conservation investment / Jeffery T. More; title: Financing private lands : conservation and management through conservation incentives in the farm bill / Robert Bonnie