Who should pay for tropical conservation, and how could the costs be met?

By A. Balmford, T. Whitten. Oryx, 2003

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Global and Planetary Change, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

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The Impact of Hunting on the Mammalian Fauna of Tropical Asian Forests (2007, background): “Local support is essential for the long-term viability of protected areas and populations, but education alone is unlikely to be effective in garnering this support, since the costs of conservation fall disproportionately on local people (Balmford & Whitten 2003).”
The role of protected areas in conserving biodiversity and sustaining local livelihoods (2005, background): “When considering the web of institutional and group connections to a protected area, it becomes imperative to look through an economic lens and define the costs and benefits, both direct and passive, that each group maintains with the landscape and resources of the area (113).”
Social Equity Matters in Payments for Ecosystem Services (2014, background): “For example, equity dimensions also include the distribution of burdens, including both direct management costs and passive costs, such as reduced resource access (Balmford and Whitten 2003).”
Ongoing global biodiversity loss and the need to move beyond protected areas: a review of the technical and practical shortcomings of protected areas on land and sea (2011, background): “The current limited scale of transfer of resources from north to south (Balmford & Whitten 2003) is unlikely to grow in the near future given the current global financial situation and the fact that developed countries face their own deficits in conservation spending (e.g. spending for the…”
Moving ahead with REDD: issues, options and implications (2008, background): “Tropical forest conservation is widely viewed to have been significantly underfunded in recent decades, in terms of both scale and length of funding cycle (Balmford and Whitten 2003), and the financial flows associated with REDD offer radical new possibilities on both fronts.”
Financial Costs of Meeting Global Biodiversity Conservation Targets: Current Spending and Unmet Needs (2012, background): “A particular challenge will be how to address the current mismatch between the greater resources available in richer countries and the higher potential conservation gains in financially poor, biodiversity-rich countries (31, 32).”
Payments for environmental services: some nuts and bolts (2005, background): “This paper does not address the fi rst obstacle, 'unwillingness to pay', which is dealt with elsewhere (Balmford et al. 2002; Balmford and Whitten 2003; James, Gaston, and Balmford 2001; Wunder et al. 2004; Gutman 2003).”
Payments for ecosystem services: justified or not? A political view (2010, background): “…on local demand of ESs is applied to guarantee ecosystem conservation, then the extraction of funds out of the local community risks widening the existing regressive financing of local conservation efforts that contribute to global benefits (Balmford and Whitten, 2003; Barrett et al., 2001).”
Direct payments for biodiversity conservation in developing countries: practical insights for design and implementation (2009, background): “(7) Synergies with sustainable financing Practitioners are beginning to acknowledge that successful conservation will require ongoing funding from public and philanthropic sources, given that markets have failed to secure natural resources (Balmford & Whitten, 2003).”
Paradox, presumption and pitfalls in conservation biology: The importance of habitat change for amphibians and reptiles. (2007, background): “Understanding this balance is important because given the desperately limited resources available to conservation (Balmford and Whitten, 2003), it is essential that we are strategic in directing research efforts towards the highest priorities.”
The importance of local forest benefits: Economic valuation of Non-Timber Forest Products in the Eastern Arc Mountains in Tanzania (2014, neutral): “However, while the benefits from CO2 sequestration and biodiversity protection accrue to the entire international community (Balmford and Whitten, 2003; Strassburg et al., 2010), the current welfare of people in local communities in developing countries, many of whom already live near the poverty…”