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Conservation Financing

Conservation Financing is a subfield of environmental and development finance that designs, mobilizes, and manages financial mechanisms and capital flows specifically to support the long-term protection, restoration, and sustainable use of biodiversity and ecosystems, including through public, private, and market-based instruments linked to conservation and nature-based tourism.

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Money for Nothing? A Call for Empirical Evaluation of Biodiversity Conservation Investments

Paul J. Ferraro, Subhrendu K. Pattanayak · PLoS Biology · 2006 · 1.3K citations · Full text

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Direct Payments to Conserve Biodiversity

Paul J. Ferraro, Agnes I. Kiss · Science · 2002 · 926 citations

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Walk on the Wild Side: Estimating the Global Magnitude of Visits to Protected Areas

Andrew Balmford, Jonathan Green, Michael A. Anderson et al. · PLoS Biology · 2015 · 867 citations · Full text

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Is community-based ecotourism a good use of biodiversity conservation funds?

Agnes I. Kiss · Trends in Ecology & Evolution · 2004 · 774 citations

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Financial Costs of Meeting Global Biodiversity Conservation Targets: Current Spending and Unmet Needs

Donal McCarthy, Paul F. Donald, Jörn P. W. Scharlemann et al. · Science · 2012 · 679 citations · Full text

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  1. PR
    Paul R. Armsworth

    University of Tennessee at Knoxville, United States

    13 publications · 523 citations

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  2. PK
    Peter Kareiva

    The Nature Conservancy, United States

    12 publications · 1.2K citations

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  3. HP
    Hugh P. Possingham

    The University of Queensland, Australia

    13 publications · 1.1K citations

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  4. SW
    Sven Wunder

    Center for International Forestry Research, Indonesia

    10 publications · 1.5K citations

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  5. PJ
    Paul J. Ferraro

    Georgia State University, United States

    11 publications · 3.3K citations

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Institutions

1K

  1. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    26 h-index

    55 publications

    10.8K citations

  2. The Nature Conservancy

    Arlington, United States

    22 h-index

    50 publications

    4.3K citations

  3. The University of Queensland

    Brisbane, Australia

    21 h-index

    71 publications

    6.4K citations

  4. University of Kent

    Canterbury, United Kingdom

    16 h-index

    40 publications

    3K citations

  5. University of Oxford

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    16 h-index

    35 publications

    3K citations

  6. Wageningen University & Research

    Wageningen, The Netherlands

    15 h-index

    32 publications

    2.4K citations

  7. Colorado State University

    Fort Collins, United States

    14 h-index

    31 publications

    1.3K citations

  8. Cornell University

    Ithaca, United States

    14 h-index

    31 publications

    3.1K citations

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  1. Conservation Biology

    55 publications · 4.5K citations

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  2. Ecological Economics

    33 publications · 3K citations

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  3. Conservation Letters

    31 publications · 1.9K citations

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  4. Biological Conservation

    25 publications · 2K citations

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  5. Oryx

    25 publications · 1.9K citations

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