Fiscal Economic Instruments for the Sustainable Management of Natural Resources in Coastal Marine Areas of the Yucatan Peninsula

Laura Vidal-Hernández, Diana de Yta-Castillo, Blanca Castellanos-Basto, Marco Suárez-Castro and Evelia Rivera-Arriaga
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Laura Vidal-Hernández: Unidad Multidisciplinaria de Docencia e Investigación Sisal, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Sisal 97130, Yucatán, Mexico
Diana de Yta-Castillo: CONACYT–Facultad de Ciencias, UMDI-Sisal, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Sierra Papacal 97302, Yucatán, Mexico
Blanca Castellanos-Basto: Posgrado en Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Circuito Exterior s/n Ciudad Universitaria, Ciudad de México 04510, Mexico
Marco Suárez-Castro: Centro Estatal de Evaluación y Control de Confianza, Secretaría de Seguridad Pública, Anillo Periférico Poniente, Km. 45 Polígono Susulá-Caucel, Merida 97128, Yucatán, Mexico
Evelia Rivera-Arriaga: Manejo Integrado de la zona Costera, Instituto EPOMEX-UAC, Campus 6. Av. Héroe de Nacozari No. 480, San Francisco de Campeche, Campeche 24029, Mexico

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 19, 1-20

Abstract: Fiscal economic instruments (FEI) are indirect regulation mechanisms that generate public revenue for the state through rights to use, charges, and concessions. In Mexico, some of these instruments can be used in the surveillance, administration, and preservation of the environment. In this paper, we analyze the changes in Federal and State growth rates of expenditure budgets in critical areas of the Yucatan Peninsula coast to describe their contribution to sustainable development during the last 12 years. We present an adaptation of the methodological guide of economic instruments for environmental management from CEPAL, with 2013 as the base year for the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) deflator and the use of the Protocol of Nagoya year as an international compromise signed by Mexico. The results obtained show that the expenditure budgets respond to economic, political, and short-term security attention without expectations for sustainability. However, alarming evidence of severe environmental deterioration in the coast is diminishing natural attraction, from tourism, for example, which is the main source of income in the region. The effective use of FEI by local governments may be useful to addressing environmental challenges from a decentralization process with better awareness of the importance of coastal areas for regional sustainability.

Keywords: economic instruments; Yucatan Peninsula; government budget; coastal sustainable management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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