The code and data for a policy design study on a a global biodiversity financing mechanism.
The article:
Droste, N., Farley, J., Ring, I., May, P.H., Ricketts, T.H. (2019) Designing a global mechanism for intergovernmental biodiversity financing.
Here is a description of the files:
- PA_calcs.py calculates PA shares from UNEP-WCMC global protected area data (version May 2017, https://www.protectedplanet.net/)
- EFT_world.R reads in the input data and calculates the rewards, incentives, and leverages as presented in the Supporting Information of the paper, plots figures, and writes out the data.
The folder structure:
- data
- raw
- out
- figs