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DOI	10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2014.12.004
	Paper park performance: Mexico's natural protected areas in the 1990s
	Blackman A.; Pfaff A.; Robalino J.
发表日期	2015
ISSN	0959-3780
卷号	31
英文摘要	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. Moreover, these effects have different signs depending on the region. Finally, we find that NPAs with certain characteristics were more effective at stemming deforestation inside their borders, namely, those that were large, new, mixed use, and relatively well-funded. Taken together, these results suggest that paper parks have the potential to either reduce or exacerbate tropical deforestation and highlight the need for further research on the conditions that lead to each outcome. © 2014 Elsevier Ltd.
英文关键词	Deforestation; Matching; Mexico; Protected area
学科领域	deforestation; developing world; park management; protected area; resource management; satellite data; Mexico [North America]
语种	英语
scopus关键词	deforestation; developing world; park management; protected area; resource management; satellite data; Mexico [North America]
来源期刊	Global Environmental Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/117556
作者单位	Resources for the Future, 1616 P Street, Washington, DC 20036, United States; Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, United States; Environment for Development Center for Central America (EfD-CA), Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza, CATIE 7170, Cartago, Turrialba, 30501, Costa Rica
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Blackman A.,Pfaff A.,Robalino J.. Paper park performance: Mexico's natural protected areas in the 1990s[J],2015,31.
APA	Blackman A.,Pfaff A.,&Robalino J..(2015).Paper park performance: Mexico's natural protected areas in the 1990s.Global Environmental Change,31.
MLA	Blackman A.,et al."Paper park performance: Mexico's natural protected areas in the 1990s".Global Environmental Change 31(2015).