Factors Influencing Private Landowner Restoration Investment Decisions in Coastal Louisiana

• Main Authors: Dedah, Cheikhna O, Kazmierczak, Richard F., Jr, Keithly, Walter R., Jr
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Edition: 1370
• Series: Selected Paper
• Subjects: attitudes; Environmental Economics and Policy; investment; Land Economics/Use; restoration; risk; Risk and Uncertainty; wetlands

Coastal wetland loss has been a major problem in Louisiana, exceeding 1.2 million acres over the last century alone. Although federal, state, and local efforts have attempted to combat this loss from a public perspective, little has been done to encourage private landowners to maintain and protect t...