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Comparing Two Methods of Private Conservation
Description
The purpose of this thesis is to compare ecolabeling to conservation easements for facilitating multi-use land between food production and conservation. Biodiversity has been on the decline as human agriculture uses more land. According to Encyclopedia Britannica “Half of the world’s habitable land (some 51 million square km [19.7 million square miles]) has been converted to agriculture, and some 77 percent of agricultural land (some 40 million square km [15.4 million square miles]) is used for grazing by cattle, sheep, goats, and other livestock. This massive conversion of forests, wetlands, grasslands, and other terrestrial ecosystems has produced a 60 percent decline (on average) in the number of vertebrates worldwide since 1970”(Rafferty 2010). The purpose of this paper is to explore ways individual landowners and private businesses can continue to operate profitably on their land while reversing the harmful loss to biodiversity observed in the past 50 years. Two of the most popular methods of achieving conservation on workable land are ecolabeling and conservation easements.
Date Created
2020-12
Contributors
- Wilcox, Christopher James (Author)
- Leonard, Brian (Thesis director)
- Schoon, Michael (Committee member)
- Dean, W.P. Carey School of Business (Contributor)
- Department of Supply Chain Management (Contributor)
- Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor)
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47 pages
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Academic Year 2020-2021
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.62611
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- 2020-12-03 11:11:50
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- 2021-08-11 04:09:57
- 2 years 8 months ago
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