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dc.contributor.authorIftekhar, MS
dc.contributor.authorPannell, D
dc.contributor.authorHawkins, J
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-16T04:08:21Z
dc.date.available2020-04-16T04:08:21Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.identifier.issn2071-1050
dc.identifier.doi10.3390/su11195273
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/393127
dc.description.abstractIn various countries, offset policies allow economic developments to proceed on condition that proponents undertake agreed actions that offset the resulting losses of environmental values. Although ecological and environmental benefits are the main concern of a conservation agency when assessing an offset proposal, it is also important to be aware of the full cost of implementing the offset. However, there is currently a lack of understanding of the costs of implementing offsets, including which costs are relevant and what their magnitudes are. To address this knowledge gap, we developed a typology of costs that are relevant to offset schemes. We searched the publicly available information on costs of offset activities for thirty-four threatened species and communities in Australia to apply our cost framework. The results indicate that cost information is lacking in many cases. Information about some of the cost categories is not available for any of the species (e.g., induced costs to other areas or sectors). It is not clear whether the unreported cost categories are not considered during negotiation or whether it is just a case of lack of reporting.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
dc.relation.ispartofissue19
dc.relation.ispartofjournalSustainability
dc.relation.ispartofvolume11
dc.subject.fieldofresearchEnvironment and resource economics
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode380105
dc.subject.keywordsScience & Technology
dc.subject.keywordsLife Sciences & Biomedicine
dc.subject.keywordsGreen & Sustainable Science & Technology
dc.subject.keywordsEnvironmental Sciences
dc.subject.keywordsEnvironmental Studies
dc.titleCosts of Conservation Offset Activities: The State of Publicly Available Information in Australia
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dcterms.bibliographicCitationIftekhar, MS; Pannell, D; Hawkins, J, Costs of Conservation Offset Activities: The State of Publicly Available Information in Australia, Sustainability, 2019, 11 (19)
dcterms.licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.date.updated2020-04-16T04:05:34Z
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gro.rights.copyright© The Author(s) 2019. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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gro.griffith.authorIftekhar, Md Sayed S.


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