Reply to Phelps et al: Liability rules provide incentives to protect natural capital

Affiliations

¹ Institute on the Environment, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108; Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108; The Natural Capital Project, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108; polasky@umn.edu.
² The Natural Capital Project, c/o School of Environment and Forest Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195; Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305;
³ Department of Integrative Biology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331.

Comment

Stephen Polasky et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2015.

. 2015 Sep 29;112(39):E5380.

doi: 10.1073/pnas.1516116112. Epub 2015 Sep 18.

¹ Institute on the Environment, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108; Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108; The Natural Capital Project, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108; polasky@umn.edu.
² The Natural Capital Project, c/o School of Environment and Forest Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195; Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305;
³ Department of Integrative Biology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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