Large Scale Marine Protected Areas for Biodiversity Conservation Along a Linear Gradient: Cooperation, Strategic Behavior or Conservation Autarky?

Maarten Punt, Hans-Peter Weikard, Ekko van Ierland and Jan Stel

Environmental & Resource Economics, 2012, vol. 53, issue 2, 203-228

Abstract: In this paper we investigate effects of overlap in species between ecosystems along a linear gradient on the location of marine protected areas (MPAs) under full cooperation, strategic behavior and conservation autarky. Compared to the full cooperation outcome, both strategic behavior and conservation autarky lead to under-investment in biodiversity protection. Under strategic behavior, however, we observe the additional problem of “location leakage” i.e. countries invest less in species protected by others. Conservation autarky eliminates location leakage; in ecosystems with partly overlapping species compositions at country borders it even induces MPAs that are too large from a global perspective. We also find that, in our setting of a linear gradient without migrating species, countries focus their conservation efforts on species unique to their own country and that these species are relatively well protected compared to common species. Copyright The Author(s) 2012

Keywords: Bioeconomic modeling; Biodiversity conservation; Game theory; Marine protected areas; Marine reserves; Reserve site selection; Linear setting (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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