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Noah's Ark problem: a standalone construct

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Environmental economics

problem of allocating a limited conservation budget across species to maximize expected diversity, solved with a simple ranking criterion.

In environmental economics, Noah's Ark problem refers to problem of allocating a limited conservation budget across species to maximize expected diversity, solved with a simple ranking criterion. This meaning comes from Weitzman (1998) in Econometrica.[1]

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conservation4 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs diversity3 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs simple2 fields · 2 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs

References

Weitzman, M. L. (1998). The Noah's Ark Problem. Econometrica, 66(6), 1279. https://doi.org/10.2307/2999617

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