Impacts of Conservation Incentives in Protected Areas: The Case of Bolsa Floresta, Brazil

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Impacts of Conservation Incentives in Protected Areas: The Case of Bolsa Floresta, Brazil

dc.contributor.author	Cisneros, Elias
dc.contributor.author	Borner, Jan
dc.contributor.author	Pagiola, Stefano
dc.contributor.author	Wunder, Sven
dc.date.accessioned	2019-12-23T20:32:53Z
dc.date.available	2019-12-23T20:32:53Z
dc.date.issued	2019-11
dc.description.abstract	Incentive-based conservation is a promising approach to tropical forest conservation, including within multiple-use protected areas. Here we analyze the environmental impacts of Bolsa Floresta, a longstanding forest conservation program combining conditional household payments with livelihood-focused investments in 15 multiple-use reserves of Amazonas State, Brazil. We use grid-based data, nearest-neighbor matching, and panel data econometrics to compare forest-related program outcomes (deforestation, degradation, fires) with non-participating reserves. While post-treatment deforestation and degradation was negligible, this was already the case pre-treatment, since low-threat reserves had preferentially been targeted. We thus find only statistically insignificant additional conservation effects from implementation. No important heterogeneous treatment effects could be detected either. Our findings thus add to the growing evidence that spatial mis-targeting towards low-hanging fruits, that is disproportionally selecting low-threat forest conservation areas into programs, constitutes a prime cause for low additionality found in rigorous impact evaluations of incentive-based forest conservation initiatives.	en
dc.identifier	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/963101576773519234/Impacts-of-Conservation-Incentives-in-Protected-Areas-The-Case-of-Bolsa-Floresta-Brazil
dc.identifier.doi	10.1596/33077
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10986/33077
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
dc.rights	CC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder	World Bank
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subject	DEFORESTATION
dc.subject	ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
dc.subject	PROTECTED AREA
dc.subject	CONSERVATION
dc.subject	TROPICAL RAIN FOREST
dc.subject	TRANSFERS
dc.title	Impacts of Conservation Incentives in Protected Areas	en
dc.title.subtitle	The Case of Bolsa Floresta, Brazil	en
dc.type	Working Paper	en
dc.type	Document de travail	fr
dc.type	Documento de trabajo	es
dspace.entity.type	Publication
okr.crossref.title	Impacts of Conservation Incentives in Protected Areas
okr.date.disclosure	2019-12-19
okr.doctype	Publications & Research
okr.doctype	Publications & Research::Working Paper
okr.docurl	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/963101576773519234/Impacts-of-Conservation-Incentives-in-Protected-Areas-The-Case-of-Bolsa-Floresta-Brazil
okr.guid	963101576773519234
okr.identifier.doi	10.1596/33077
okr.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.1596/33077
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum	090224b087445dfd_1_0
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum	31656152
okr.identifier.report	144519
okr.imported	true	en
okr.language.supported	en
okr.pdfurl	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/963101576773519234/pdf/Impacts-of-Conservation-Incentives-in-Protected-Areas-The-Case-of-Bolsa-Floresta-Brazil.pdf	en
okr.region.administrative	Latin America & Caribbean
okr.region.country	Brazil
okr.topic	Environment::Environmental Disasters & Degradation
okr.topic	Environment::Environmental Economics & Policies
okr.topic	Environment::Environmental Protection
okr.topic	Environment::Environmentally Protected Areas
okr.topic	Environment::Forests and Forestry
okr.unit	GLOBAL ENR PM (SENGL)

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