Paper park performance: Mexico’s natural protected areas in the 1990s

Although developing countries have established scores of new protected areas over the past three decades, they often amount to little more than ‘‘paper parks’’ that are chronically short of the financial, human, and technical resources needed for effective management. It is not clear whether and how...

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Main Authors:	Blackman, Allen, Pfaff, Alexander, Robalino, Juan
Format:	Artículo
Language:	Inglés
Published:	Elsevier, Ámsterdam (Países Bajos) 2020
Subjects:	ÁREAS PROTEGIDAS DEFORESTACIÓN RECURSOS FINANCIEROS CAMBIO CLIMÁTICO FINANCIAMIENTO BOSQUE MANEJO FORESTAL ANALISIS SOCIOECONOMICO GEOFISICA CLIMATOLOGICO MEXICO (DISTRITO FEDERAL)
Online Access:	https://repositorio.catie.ac.cr/handle/11554/9508

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spelling	RepoCATIE95082021-12-22T19:15:24Z Paper park performance: Mexico’s natural protected areas in the 1990s Blackman, Allen Pfaff, Alexander Robalino, Juan ÁREAS PROTEGIDAS DEFORESTACIÓN RECURSOS FINANCIEROS CAMBIO CLIMÁTICO FINANCIAMIENTO BOSQUE MANEJO FORESTAL ANALISIS SOCIOECONOMICO GEOFISICA CLIMATOLOGICO MEXICO (DISTRITO FEDERAL) Although developing countries have established scores of new protected areas over the past three decades, they often amount to little more than ‘‘paper parks’’ that are chronically short of the financial, human, and technical resources needed for effective management. It is not clear whether and how severely under-resourced parks affect deforestation. In principle, they could either stem it by, for example, creating an expectation of future enforcement, or they could spur it by, for example, creating open access regimes. We examine the effect of Mexico’s natural protected areas (NPAs) on deforestation from 1993 to 2000, a period when forest clearing was rampant and the vast majority of protected areas had negligible resources or management. We use high-resolution satellite data to measure deforestation and (covariate and propensity score) matching to control for NPAs’ nonrandom siting and for spillovers. Our broad finding is that Mexico’s paper parks had heterogeneous effects both inside and outside their borders. More specifically, at the national-level, we cannot reject the null hypothesis that NPAs had zero average effect on clearing inside their borders, nor can we reject a similar hypothesis for spillover clearing outside their borders. However, we can detect statistically and economically significant inside- and outside-NPA effects for certain geographic regions. 2020-08-21T23:46:43Z 2020-08-21T23:46:43Z 2015-01 Artículo dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2014.12.004 https://repositorio.catie.ac.cr/handle/11554/9508 en Global Environmental Change Volumen 31 (January 2015), pages 50-61 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess application/pdf Elsevier, Ámsterdam (Países Bajos)
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topic	ÁREAS PROTEGIDAS DEFORESTACIÓN RECURSOS FINANCIEROS CAMBIO CLIMÁTICO FINANCIAMIENTO BOSQUE MANEJO FORESTAL ANALISIS SOCIOECONOMICO GEOFISICA CLIMATOLOGICO MEXICO (DISTRITO FEDERAL)
spellingShingle	ÁREAS PROTEGIDAS DEFORESTACIÓN RECURSOS FINANCIEROS CAMBIO CLIMÁTICO FINANCIAMIENTO BOSQUE MANEJO FORESTAL ANALISIS SOCIOECONOMICO GEOFISICA CLIMATOLOGICO MEXICO (DISTRITO FEDERAL) Blackman, Allen Pfaff, Alexander Robalino, Juan Paper park performance: Mexico’s natural protected areas in the 1990s
description	Although developing countries have established scores of new protected areas over the past three decades, they often amount to little more than ‘‘paper parks’’ that are chronically short of the financial, human, and technical resources needed for effective management. It is not clear whether and how severely under-resourced parks affect deforestation. In principle, they could either stem it by, for example, creating an expectation of future enforcement, or they could spur it by, for example, creating open access regimes. We examine the effect of Mexico’s natural protected areas (NPAs) on deforestation from 1993 to 2000, a period when forest clearing was rampant and the vast majority of protected areas had negligible resources or management. We use high-resolution satellite data to measure deforestation and (covariate and propensity score) matching to control for NPAs’ nonrandom siting and for spillovers. Our broad finding is that Mexico’s paper parks had heterogeneous effects both inside and outside their borders. More specifically, at the national-level, we cannot reject the null hypothesis that NPAs had zero average effect on clearing inside their borders, nor can we reject a similar hypothesis for spillover clearing outside their borders. However, we can detect statistically and economically significant inside- and outside-NPA effects for certain geographic regions.
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Paper park performance: Mexico’s natural protected areas in the 1990s

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