Land Use Policies for Biodiversity

42 Pages Posted: 18 Jul 2017 Last revised: 3 Oct 2018

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Jun Yoshida

Tohoku Gakuin University

Tatsuhito Kono

Tohoku University - Graduate School of Information Sciences

Date Written: July 6, 2017

Abstract

Some wildlife creatures, such as carnivores, disease-carrying mosquitoes, and virus, encroach into a city and harm human lives, but they are important for biodiversity. This paper studies land use policies for biodiversity conservation as well as protection of human lives in a continuous monocentric city adjacent to natural habitats with three species forming a food chain. We analytically characterize the second-best optimal policies, where governments provide animal traps within the city, and control the city size and plant densities. The main findings are that (i) the second-best optimal city size can be larger or smaller than the laissez-faire equilibrium city size, unlike Eichner and Pethig (2006); (ii) a set of second-best policies can achieve more than 90% of the first-best welfare gain.

Keywords: Urban boundary regulation; plant density control; biodiversity; food-chain

JEL Classification: R11, R14, Q28

Suggested Citation

Yoshida, Jun and Kono, Tatsuhito, Land Use Policies for Biodiversity (July 6, 2017). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2998463 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2998463

Jun Yoshida (Contact Author)

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Tatsuhito Kono

Tohoku University - Graduate School of Information Sciences ( email )

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Japan
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