Economics in Systematic Conservation Planning for Lower-income Countries: A Literature Review and Assessment

Heidi Albers, M. Maloney and Elizabeth Robinson ()

International Review of Environmental and Resource Economics, 2017, vol. 10, issue 2, 145-182

Abstract: Lower-income countries contain much of the world's biodiversity but often lack the institutions and resources for effective biodiversity conservation. Systematic conservation planning (SCP) frameworks provide tools to identify and implement conservation areas effectively and efficiently but rarely address issues central to lower-income countries, which limits SCP’s usefulness in these settings. This paper reviews SCP and discusses how to make SCP more relevant in lowerincome countries. Lower-income countries have small conservation budgets, imperfect measures of conservation costs and benefits, and unique institutions that all influence the siting, management, and implementation of protected area networks. In addition, these aspects of the lower-income country setting inform the reaction of people to a protected area, which determines the conservation effectiveness of the protected areas. Overall, the institutional and socioeconomic settings of lower-income countries create additional layers of complexity that should be incorporated into SCP frameworks at the stage of selecting reserve sites to improve the efficiency of conservation policies.

Keywords: Parks; nature reserves; reserve site selection; systematic conservation planning; spatial prioritization; incomplete markets; sustainable development; property rights; enforcement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q01 Q15 Q24 Q56 Q57 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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