The impact of protected area governance and management capacity on ecosystem function in Central America

Protected areas (PAs) are a prominent approach to maintaining and enhancing biodiversity and ecosystem services. A critical question for safeguarding these resources is how PA governance processes and management structures influence their effectiveness. We conduct an impact evaluation of 12 PAs in t...

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Autores principales:	Muñoz Brenes, Carlos L., Jones, Kelly W., Schlesinger, Peter, Robalino, Juan, Vierling, Lee
Formato:	Artículo
Lenguaje:	Inglés
Publicado:	Frédéric Mertens, Universidade de Brasilia (Brasil) 2020
Materias:	AREAS PROTEGIDAS BIODIVERSIDAD SERVICIOS DE LOS ECOSISTEMAS GOBERNANZA AMBIENTAL ECOSISTEMA ENTREVISTAS DEFORESTACIÓN CONSERVACION ECOLOGIA DIVERSIDAD BIOLOGICA AMERICA CENTRAL
Acceso en línea:	https://doi.org/ 10.1371/journal.pone.0205964 https://repositorio.catie.ac.cr/handle/11554/9539

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spelling	RepoCATIE95392022-02-19T22:52:37Z The impact of protected area governance and management capacity on ecosystem function in Central America Muñoz Brenes, Carlos L. Jones, Kelly W. Schlesinger, Peter Robalino, Juan Vierling, Lee AREAS PROTEGIDAS BIODIVERSIDAD SERVICIOS DE LOS ECOSISTEMAS GOBERNANZA AMBIENTAL ECOSISTEMA ENTREVISTAS DEFORESTACIÓN CONSERVACION ECOLOGIA DIVERSIDAD BIOLOGICA AMERICA CENTRAL Protected areas (PAs) are a prominent approach to maintaining and enhancing biodiversity and ecosystem services. A critical question for safeguarding these resources is how PA governance processes and management structures influence their effectiveness. We conduct an impact evaluation of 12 PAs in three Central American countries to assess how processes in management restrictions, management capacity, and decentralization affect the annual change in the satellite-derived Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI). NDVI varies with greenness that relates to plant production, biomass, and important ecosystem functions related to biodiversity and ecosystem services such as water quality and carbon storage. Any loss of vegetation cover in the form of deforestation or degradation would show up as a decrease in NDVI values over time and gains in vegetation cover and regeneration as an increase in NDVI values. Management restriction categories are based on international classifications of strict versus multiple-use PAs, and capacity and decentralization categories are based on key informant interviews of PA managers. We use matching to create a counterfactual of non-protected observations and a matching estimator and regression to estimate treatment effects of each sub-sample. On average, strict and multiple-use PAs have a significant and positive effect on NDVI compared to non-protected land uses. Both high and low decentralized PAs also positively affect NDVI. High capacity PAs have a positive and significant effect on NDVI, while low capacity PAs have a negative effect on NDVI. 2020-08-27T22:12:31Z 2020-08-27T22:12:31Z 2018 Artículo https://doi.org/ 10.1371/journal.pone.0205964 https://repositorio.catie.ac.cr/handle/11554/9539 en PLoS ONE, Volumen 13, Number 10 (2018) info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess application/pdf Frédéric Mertens, Universidade de Brasilia (Brasil)
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language	Inglés
topic	AREAS PROTEGIDAS BIODIVERSIDAD SERVICIOS DE LOS ECOSISTEMAS GOBERNANZA AMBIENTAL ECOSISTEMA ENTREVISTAS DEFORESTACIÓN CONSERVACION ECOLOGIA DIVERSIDAD BIOLOGICA AMERICA CENTRAL
spellingShingle	AREAS PROTEGIDAS BIODIVERSIDAD SERVICIOS DE LOS ECOSISTEMAS GOBERNANZA AMBIENTAL ECOSISTEMA ENTREVISTAS DEFORESTACIÓN CONSERVACION ECOLOGIA DIVERSIDAD BIOLOGICA AMERICA CENTRAL Muñoz Brenes, Carlos L. Jones, Kelly W. Schlesinger, Peter Robalino, Juan Vierling, Lee The impact of protected area governance and management capacity on ecosystem function in Central America
description	Protected areas (PAs) are a prominent approach to maintaining and enhancing biodiversity and ecosystem services. A critical question for safeguarding these resources is how PA governance processes and management structures influence their effectiveness. We conduct an impact evaluation of 12 PAs in three Central American countries to assess how processes in management restrictions, management capacity, and decentralization affect the annual change in the satellite-derived Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI). NDVI varies with greenness that relates to plant production, biomass, and important ecosystem functions related to biodiversity and ecosystem services such as water quality and carbon storage. Any loss of vegetation cover in the form of deforestation or degradation would show up as a decrease in NDVI values over time and gains in vegetation cover and regeneration as an increase in NDVI values. Management restriction categories are based on international classifications of strict versus multiple-use PAs, and capacity and decentralization categories are based on key informant interviews of PA managers. We use matching to create a counterfactual of non-protected observations and a matching estimator and regression to estimate treatment effects of each sub-sample. On average, strict and multiple-use PAs have a significant and positive effect on NDVI compared to non-protected land uses. Both high and low decentralized PAs also positively affect NDVI. High capacity PAs have a positive and significant effect on NDVI, while low capacity PAs have a negative effect on NDVI.
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author	Muñoz Brenes, Carlos L. Jones, Kelly W. Schlesinger, Peter Robalino, Juan Vierling, Lee
author_facet	Muñoz Brenes, Carlos L. Jones, Kelly W. Schlesinger, Peter Robalino, Juan Vierling, Lee
author_sort	Muñoz Brenes, Carlos L.
title	The impact of protected area governance and management capacity on ecosystem function in Central America
title_short	The impact of protected area governance and management capacity on ecosystem function in Central America
title_full	The impact of protected area governance and management capacity on ecosystem function in Central America
title_fullStr	The impact of protected area governance and management capacity on ecosystem function in Central America
title_full_unstemmed	The impact of protected area governance and management capacity on ecosystem function in Central America
title_sort	impact of protected area governance and management capacity on ecosystem function in central america
publisher	Frédéric Mertens, Universidade de Brasilia (Brasil)
publishDate	2020
url	https://doi.org/ 10.1371/journal.pone.0205964 https://repositorio.catie.ac.cr/handle/11554/9539
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The impact of protected area governance and management capacity on ecosystem function in Central America

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