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Conservation and development : Evidence from Thai protected areas
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Sims, Katharine R. E. |
| Copyright Year | 2010 |
| Abstract | Protected areas are a key tool for conservation policy but their economic impacts are not well understood. This paper presents new evidence about the local effects of strictly protected areas in Thailand, combining data on socioeconomic outcomes from a poverty mapping study with satellite-based estimates of forest cover. The selective placement of protected areas is addressed by controlling for characteristics which drove both protection and development and by instrumenting for protection with priority watershed status. The estimates indicate that protected areas increased average consumption and lowered poverty rates, despite imposing binding constraints on agricultural land availability. Socioeconomic gains are likely explained by increased tourism in and around protected areas. However, net impacts are largest at intermediate distances from major cities, highlighting that the spatial patterns of both costs and benefits are important for efforts to minimize conservation-development tradeoffs. & 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.amherst.edu/system/files/media/Sims%25202010%2520JEEM.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.amherst.edu/system/files/media/Sims%202010%20JEEM.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Community Economic Development Ecosystem services Elegant degradation Emission - Male genitalia finding Ephrin Type-B Receptor 1, human Estimated Extrapolation Financial cost Instrumentation (computer programming) Large Largest Park (environment) Policy Promotion (action) Social inequality Watershed (image processing) benefit payment |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
