Impacts of protected areas vary with the level of government: Comparing avoided deforestation across agencies in the Brazilian Amazon.

ABSTRACT: Protected areas (PAs) are the leading tools to conserve forests. However, given their mixed effectiveness, we want to know when they have impacts internally and, if they do, when they have spillovers. Political economy posits roles for the level of government. One hypothesis is that federal PAs avoid more internal deforestation than state PAs since federal agencies consider gains for other jurisdictions. Such political differences as well as economic mechanisms can cause PA spillovers to vary greatly, even from "leakage," more deforestation elsewhere, to "blockage," less deforestation elsewhere. We examine internal impacts and local spillovers for Brazilian Amazon federal and state agencies. Outside the region's "arc of deforestation," we confirm little internal impact and show no spillove

SUBMITTER: Herrera D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6660721 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature