Understanding the Performance of Biodiversity Offset Markets: Evidence from an Integrated Ecological-Economic Model
研究通过一个空间显式的综合生态经济模型，模拟英国某地区生物多样性抵消市场中开发商与农民的互动，发现生态指标选择显著影响市场流动性和目标物种的空间分布，且开发商福利收益高于农民。
Biodiversity offset markets can incentivize private landowners to take actions that benefit biodiversity. A spatially explicit integrated ecological-economic model is developed and employed for a U.K. region where offset buyers (house developers) and sellers (farmers) interact by trading offset credits. We simulate how changes in the ecological metric and geographic scale affects the performance of the offset market. Results show that the choice of the metric has a significant effect on market liquidity and the spatial distribution of gains and losses in the "target" species. The results also consistently reveal relatively higher potential welfare gains for developers than for farmers. <i></i>