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International Willingness to Pay for the Protection of the Amazon Rainforest

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dc.contributor.authorSiikamaki, Juha V.
dc.contributor.authorKrupnick, Alan
dc.contributor.authorStrand, Jon
dc.contributor.authorVincent, Jeffrey R.
dc.date.accessioned2019-03-14T20:43:12Z
dc.date.available2019-03-14T20:43:12Z
dc.date.issued2019-03
dc.description.abstractThe Amazon rainforest, the world's largest tropical rainforest and an important constituent of the global biosphere, continues degrading by rapid deforestation, which is expected to continue despite policies to prevent it. Current international funding to protect the Amazon rainforest focuses on benefits from reduced carbon emissions. This paper examines an additional rationale for Amazon protection: the valuation of its biodiversity and forests as natural heritage to the international community. To measure the economic value of this benefit, the paper examines U.S. and Canadian households' willingness to pay to help finance Amazon rainforest protection. The analysis finds that mean willingness to pay to avoid forest losses projected to occur by 2050 despite current protective policies is $92 per household per year. Aggregating across all households and considering the area protected, the analysis finds that preserving the Amazon rainforest is worth $3,168 per hectare (95-percent confidence interval $1,580-$4,756), on average, to households in the United States and Canada. Considering households in other developed countries would generate yet larger estimates of aggregate value, likely comparable to the carbon benefits from rainforest protection. The results reveal high values of the Amazon rainforest to people geographically distanced from it, lending support to international efforts to reduce deforestation in the Amazon.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/334711552333303292/International-Willingness-to-Pay-for-the-Protection-of-the-Amazon-Rainforest
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-8775
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/31401
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherWorld Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPolicy Research Working Paper;No. 8775
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subjectFOREST LOSS
dc.subjectCLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION
dc.subjectBIODIVERSITY
dc.subjectRAINFOREST
dc.subjectCONTINGENT VALUATION STUDY
dc.subjectGLOBAL CARBON SINK
dc.subjectLAND USE
dc.subjectGLOBAL BIOSPHERE
dc.subjectDEFORESTATION
dc.subjectCARBON EMISSION
dc.titleInternational Willingness to Pay for the Protection of the Amazon Rainforesten
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dc.typeDocumento de trabajoes
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okr.crossref.titleInternational Willingness to Pay for the Protection of the Amazon Rainforest
okr.date.disclosure2019-03-11
okr.doctypePublications & Research
okr.doctypePublications & Research::Policy Research Working Paper
okr.docurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/334711552333303292/International-Willingness-to-Pay-for-the-Protection-of-the-Amazon-Rainforest
okr.guid334711552333303292
okr.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-8775
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum090224b086a54a97_1_0
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum30893804
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okr.region.administrativeLatin America & Caribbean
okr.region.countryBrazil
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okr.topicEnvironment::Climate Change Mitigation and Green House Gases
okr.topicEnvironment::Climate Change and Environment
okr.topicEnvironment::Environmental Disasters & Degradation
okr.topicEnvironment::Forests and Forestry
okr.topicEnvironment::Sustainable Land Management
okr.unitDevelopment Research Group, Development Economics
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