Conservation performance of different conservation governance regimes in the Peruvian Amazon.

ABSTRACT: State-controlled protected areas (PAs) have dominated conservation strategies globally, yet their performance relative to other governance regimes is rarely assessed comprehensively. Furthermore, performance indicators of forest PAs are typically restricted to deforestation, although the extent of forest degradation is greater. We address these shortfalls through an empirical impact evaluation of state PAs, Indigenous Territories (ITs), and civil society and private Conservation Concessions (CCs) on deforestation and degradation throughout the Peruvian Amazon. We integrated remote-sensing data with environmental and socio-economic datasets, and used propensity-score matching to assess: (i) how deforestation and degradation varied across governance regimes between 2006-2011; (ii) their prox

SUBMITTER: Schleicher J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5596048 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature