Community-based conservation programs and local people willingness to pay for wildlife protection: The case of the cotton-top tamarin in the Colombian Caribbean

Andrés Vargas Pérez and David Díaz Florian ()

Revista Lecturas de Economía, 2014, issue 81, 187-206

Abstract: ABSTRACT: Community-Based Conservation programs (CBC) are designed on the assumption that local communities are crucial to the success of the conservation agenda. There is the expectation that, by providing benefits to the local people, they will support conservation because it is economically beneficial. This paper uses willingness to pay (WTP) for habitat preservation of the cotton-top tamarin in the Colombian Caribbean as a means to assess the effect of participation in a CBC program on the support for additional conservation. Using the contingent valuation method, we found that: First, households deriving income from conservation activities are more supportive of additional habitat preservation; second, participants and non-participants in the CBC program are equally sensitive to increments in the costs of conservation; and, third, the CBC program is not a burden for non-participant households. RESUMEN: La Conservación Basada en la Comunidad (CBC) se fundamenta en el supuesto de que las comunidades locales son claves para el éxito de la agenda de conservación, por lo que se espera que los incentivos económicos incrementen su apoyo a ésta. Este artículo utiliza la disponibilidad a pagar (DAP) por la preservación del hábitat del mono tití cabeciblanco (Saguinus oedipus) como medio para analizar el efecto de la participación en un programa CBC sobre el apoyo a un incremento en la actividad de conservación. A través del método de valoración contingente se encontró que: primero, los hogares que obtienen ingresos por participar en el programa CBC están más inclinados a apoyar la preservación de un hábitat mayor; segundo, participantes y no participantes son igualmente sensibles a los incrementos en el costo de la conservación y, finalmente, el programa CBC no es percibido como una carga para los hogares no participantes.

Keywords: Biodiversidad; valoración contingente; conservación basada en la comunidad; bosque seco tropical (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q51 Q57 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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