Biodiversity offset markets: What are they really? An empirical approach to wetland mitigation banking

Anne-Charlotte Vaissière (1) , Harold Levrel (2, 1)

1 AMURE - Aménagement des Usages des Ressources et des Espaces marins et littoraux - Centre de droit et d'économie de la mer
2 CIRED - centre international de recherche sur l'environnement et le développement

• Mitigation banking is a hybrid form halfway between a market and a hierarchy. • Its features are well-adapted to implement public policy dealing with biodiversity. • It is a useful decentralized regulation tool for biodiversity conservation.

Mots clés: Biodiversity offset; Market; Hybrid forms; Mitigation banking; Wetlands

Domaines: Sciences de l'Homme et Société; Etudes de l'environnement

Anne-Charlotte Vaissière, Harold Levrel. Biodiversity offset markets: What are they really? An empirical approach to wetland mitigation banking. Ecological Economics, 2015, 110, pp.81 - 88. ⟨10.1016/j.ecolecon.2015.01.002⟩. ⟨hal-01692280⟩