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Conservation Finance

Defenders contributes to current discussions on the status of public and private financing requirements and sources for the conservation of wildlife habitat on a national scale. Various publications by Program on this topic include:

Lerner, Jeff, Janet Mackey, and Frank Casey. 2006. What’s in Noah’s wallet? Land conservation spending in the U.S. BioScience 57(5) forthcoming.

Casey, Frank. 2005. Contours of Conservation Finance in the United States at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century. In J. Levitt (ed.). From Walden to Wall Street: Frontiers of Conservation Finance. Island Press. Washington D.C. Pp. 37-50.

Shaffer, Mark L., J. Michael Scott, and Frank Casey. 2002. Noah’s options: Initial cost estimates of a national system of habitat conservation areas in the United States. BioScience 52(5):439-443.