NDLI: Do Protected Areas Reduce Forest Fragmentation? A Microlandscapes Approach

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Sims, Katharine R. E.
Copyright Year	2013
Abstract	Conservation policies influence both the amount of habitat loss and patterns of habitat fragmentation. This paper develops a “microlandscapes” approach that combines fragmentation measures with quasi-experimental evaluation methods in order to assess the effects of policy on habitat fragmentation. As an application, the paper estimates whether and to what extent wildlife sanctuaries and national parks in Thailand prevented forest loss and fragmentation. I find that both types of protected areas significantly increased forest cover, average forest patch size and maximum forest patch size. Comparisons between the two types indicate that wildlife sanctuaries were more effective than national parks in terms of protecting forest in the interior versus exterior areas of parks and preventing fragmentation conditional on the level of forest cover. The differences are consistent with predicted differences resulting from spatial patterns of enforcement that are uniform or core-focused in the wildlife sanctuaries versus boundary-focused or include agglomeration penalties in the national parks. Given the greater effectiveness of wildlife sanctuaries in preventing fragmentation and the suggestive link to enforcement types, these results reinforce existing theoretical work urging conservation managers to consider how the spatial distribution of enforcement may affect patterns of resource use.
Starting Page	303
Ending Page	333
Page Count	31
File Format	PDF
ISSN	09246460
Journal	Environmental and Resource Economics
Volume Number	58
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	15731502
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2013-08-01
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Habitat fragmentation Land use Land conservation Protected areas Policy evaluation Environmental Economics Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice Economic Policy Economics/Management Science Environmental Management
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Economics and Econometrics Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

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