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Impacts of conservation incentives in protected areas: The case of Bolsa Floresta, Brazil

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Title Impacts of conservation incentives in protected areas: The case of Bolsa Floresta, Brazil
 
Creator Cisneros, E.
Borner, J.
Pagiola, S.
Wunder, Sven
 
Subject ecosystem services
protected areas
deforestation
 
Description Conditional incentives are a promising complementary approach to conserve tropical forests, for example, in multiple-use protected areas. In this paper we analyze the environmental impacts of Bolsa Floresta, a forest conservation program that combines direct conditional payments with livelihood-focused investments in 15 multiple-use reserves in the Brazilian state of Amazonas. We use grid-based data, nearest-neighbor matching, and panel data econometrics to compare three forest-related program outcomes – deforestation, degradation, and fires – of participating and non-participating reserve areas. Forest threats were low before and after treatment, because the program prioritized low-pressure sites. Thus, we find significant but small additional conservation effects from the implementation of the program. Notwithstanding, treatment effects are relatively larger in areas with higher deforestation pressure and higher potential agricultural income. Our findings add to the growing body of evidence showing that adverse spatial targeting of conservation incentives, i.e. disproportionally enrolling low–pressure sites, is a prime cause for the low additionality found in rigorous impact evaluations of many existing initiatives.
 
Date 2022-01
2021-11-19T04:12:09Z
2021-11-19T04:12:09Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Cisneros, E., Börner, J., Pagiola, S. and Wunder, S. 2021. Impacts of conservation incentives in protected areas: The case of Bolsa Floresta, Brazil. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management: 102572. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeem.2021.102572
0095-0696
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/116162
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeem.2021.102572
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
Open Access
 
Format 102572
 
Publisher Elsevier BV
 
Source Journal of Environmental Economics and Management