Replication data for: Public Benefits, Private Benefits, and Policy Mechanism Choice for Land-Use Change for Environmental Benefits

The choice of policy mechanisms for encouraging environmentally beneficial land-use change should depend on the relative levels of private (or internal) net benefits, and public (or external) net benefits. A map of recommended policy mechanisms is developed, depending on the relative levels of these variables. Positive incentives, negative incentives, and extension need to be targeted carefully to appropriate projects—where private net benefits are closer to zero, and/or public net benefits are more extremely positive or negative. Technology development is suggested where private net costs outweigh public net benefits. No action is recommended for many potential projects.

用于推动具备环境效益的土地利用变革的政策机制选择，应当基于私人（或内部）净收益与公共（或外部）净收益的相对水平。本研究依据上述两类变量的相对水平，构建了一套推荐政策机制图谱。正向激励、负向激励与推广帮扶措施，需精准适配于特定项目——即私人净收益趋近于零，且/或公共净收益呈现极端正向或极端负向的项目。当私人净成本超出公共净收益时，建议开展相关技术研发工作。针对多数潜在项目，则无需采取任何干预措施。