Conditions associated with protected area success in conservation and poverty reduction
Ferraro, Paul
,
Hanauer, Merlin
,
Sims, Katherine
NWP Annotation by Jon Anderson
This article takes a rigorous, scientific approach to the question of whether protected areas contribute to local poverty traps and increase local poverty. The authors find that "protected areas did lead to moderate levels of avoided deforestation and poverty reduction in Costa Rica and Thailand, our analysis points to tradeoffs if decision-makers desire higher levels of either outcome." Such win-win opportunities can be mapped and targeted by interventions although they seem like relatively small areas (Costa Rica is 14% and Thailand is 5%). Win-lose areas are slightly larger. The paper looks also at distance to major cities and slope in terms of impacts on poverty and avoided deforestation.
Jon Anderson
IRG/Engility
2013-02-20
PNAS
NAS
- Comparative analysis of cases or tools
- Journal article
- Country-based case study
★★★★
Thailand and Costa Rica
- Information/knowledge management technology
- GIS/remote sensing
- Environmental/productivity - [Yes]
- Economic/income generation - [Yes]
- Environmental/productivity - [Yes]
- Economic/income generation - [Yes]
- Lessons learned (Cautionary Tale)
- Economic - [External or structural policies that influenced success or failure]
- Resources - [External or structural policies that influenced success or failure]
