How much deforestation do protected areas avoid in tropical Andean landscapes?

Pablo Cuenca, Rodrigo Arriagada () and Cristian Echeverría

Environmental Science & Policy, 2016, vol. 56, issue C, 56-66

Abstract: For many decades, protected areas (PAs) have been considered by decision makers and conservation practitioners as one of the most common policies to promote biodiversity conservation. Diverse studies have assessed the impact of conservation policies at global and regional levels by comparing deforestation rates between PAs and unprotected areas. Most of these studies are based on conventional methods and could overestimate the avoided deforestation of PAs by omitting from their analyses the lack of randomness in the allocation of forest protection.

Keywords: Protected areas; Avoided deforestation; Matching; Conservation policy; Tropical Andean forest; REDD (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2015.10.014

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