Optimal protected area implementation under spillover effects

Sonia Schwartz, Johanna Choumert-Nkolo, Pascale Motel Combes (), P. Combes-Motel and Eric Kere
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Jean-Louis Combes

Resource and Energy Economics, 2022, vol. 68, issue C

Abstract: This paper determines the best political implementation level of protected areas in the presence of two spillover effects, the infrastructure and scarcity effects. We show that decentralized regulation always leads to an overall decrease in deforestation under the infrastructure effect but not under the scarcity effect. Centralized regulation always leads to a larger protected area than decentralized regulation under the scarcity effect, which is not always true under the infrastructure effect. Finally, we conduct a case study of the Brazilian Legal Amazônia and find that spillover effects matter in the size of protected area design.

Keywords: Protected areas; Deforestation; Environmental federalism; Brazilian Legal Amazônia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H77 Q58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.reseneeco.2022.101284

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