Jane Rice
Conservation Finance Manager

Overview
Jane designs, implements and evaluates innovative market-based approaches for natural resource management. Jane’s experience in environmental markets spans habitat exchanges, species and wetland banking, carbon offsets, water quality trading and payment for ecosystem service programs. Jane has worked with a variety of clients across public, private and non-profit sectors. Jane earned her master’s degree in environmental economics and policy at the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University.
As a member of WRA’s conservation finance department, Jane strives to advance conservation investment opportunities that generate measurable environmental outcomes and competitive financial returns. Jane helps landowners unlock the natural resource value of their properties through environmental markets. Specifically, Jane conducts feasibility analyses for species conservation, wetland mitigation, and forest carbon banks and advises clients through conservation investment decision-making.
Publications
Kieser, M., Rice, J., Sokulsky, J. (2015) “Chapter 10: California, Advances in Water Quality Trading as a Flexible Compliance Tool.” Water Environment Federation.
Rice, J. (2012) “Integrated Water Resource Management in North Carolina.” Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, Duke University.
Rice, J., Baker, R. (2012) “Stakeholder Perceptions of Mexico’s Payment for Environmental Services Program: A Comparative Study of Socioeconomic and Environmental Impacts in Oaxaca and Yucatan.” Nicholas School of the Environment Master’s Projects, Duke University.
Projects
Environmental Markets Assessment
Previous Experience:
Central Valley Habitat Exchange
Nevada Conservation Credit System
Sustainability Indicators Framework for the Tahoe Basin
USAID Measuring Impact
Education
Master of Environmental Management, Economics and Policy, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University
Certificate of International Development Policy, Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, Duke University
Bachelor of Arts, Environmental Policy, The University of Michigan
Other
Habitat Conservation Planning, UC Davis Extension Course, September 2014