Evaluating the return in ecosystem services from investment in public land acquisitions.

We evaluate the return on investment (ROI) from public land conservation in the state of Minnesota, USA. We use a spatially-explicit modeling tool, the Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Tradeoffs (InVEST), to estimate how changes in land use and land cover (LULC), including public land...

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Main Authors: Kent Kovacs, Stephen Polasky, Erik Nelson, Bonnie L Keeler, Derric Pennington, Andrew J Plantinga, Steven J Taff
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3679083?pdf=render