Comparison between official priority studies guidelines and Protected Areas created in Brazil

Arthur Nicolaus Fendrich, André Gomes da Rocha and Victor Eduardo Lima Ranieri

Land Use Policy, 2019, vol. 82, issue C, 240-246

Abstract: The current rates of biodiversity loss are amongst the major global environmental problems, especially in the tropics. The creation of Protected Areas (PAs) is the most widespread strategy adopted for the minimization of such problem. However, official studies that guide the creation of PAs frequently do not convert their outcomes into conservation. This problem is not expected in Brazil, because scientific studies for the definition of priority areas for conservation were ordered by the same institutions in charge of the creation and management of PAs. In this paper, we compared the spatial distribution of PAs created in Brazil in the past decade with studies of priority areas for the protection of biodiversity. At a federal level of analysis, 19.44% of federal PAs are located in non-priority sites, which represents 0.47% of the total land area of federal PAs created. At a state level, 71.05% of state PAs are located in non-priority sites, which represents 60.68% of the total land area of state PAs created. In 2015, the total cost for the preservation of PAs in non-priority classes was US$ 17,539.30 (3.28% of the annual budget for federal PAs created after 2007) at federal level and US$ 541,745.02 (55.98% of the annual budget for state PAs created after 2008) at state level. The findings contribute to the development of strategies for the creation of new PAs in Brazil.

Keywords: Brazilian biodiversity; Protected Areas; Conservation policies; Priority areas for conservation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.12.021

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