This unique book is organized around eight detailed case studies of private land developers, local governments, and public agencies that have worked across jurisdictional and ecological boundaries to effectively address habitat conservation. The book includes two essays by leading conservation biologists who link planning at scale with sound land use decisions." --Book Jacket.
A variety of laws at all levels of government seek to conserve various natural resources, such as wetlands or endangered species habitat, by restricting the right to carry out actions that adversely affect them. A common feature ... is that they allow an otherwise prohibited activity if the adverse effects of that activity are sufficiently offset, or mitigated, by appropriate compensatory measures. On one is through habitat banking, wetland mitigation banking, conservation banking, or other banking systems. The amount of funds that are directed to compensatory mitigation on an annual basis in the U.S. is significant.
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