Comparing Conventional and New Policy Approaches for Carnivore Conservation: Theoretical Results and Application to Tiger Conservation

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作者
Zabel, Astrid [1 ]
Pittel, Karen [2 ,5 ]
Bostedt, Goran [3 ,4 ]
Engel, Stefanie [1 ]
机构
[1] ETH, Swiss Fed Inst Technol, Inst Environm Decis IED Environm Policy & Econ, CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland
[2] Univ Munich, Munich, Germany
[3] Swedish Univ Agr Sci, Dept Forest Econ, SLU, S-90183 Umea, Sweden
[4] Swedish Univ Agr Sci, Ctr Environm & Resource Econ, SLU, CERE, S-90183 Umea, Sweden
[5] Ifo Inst Econ Res, Munich, Germany
来源
ENVIRONMENTAL & RESOURCE ECONOMICS | 2011年 / 48卷 / 02期
关键词
Biodiversity conservation; India; Payments for environmental services; Performance payments; Conservation incentives; Wildlife-livestock conflicts; ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES; LIVESTOCK PREDATION; LYCAON-PICTUS; EURASIAN LYNX; PAYMENTS; WILDLIFE; CONFLICT; INDIA; COMPENSATION; DEPREDATION;
D O I
10.1007/s10640-010-9411-4
中图分类号
F [经济];
学科分类号
02 ;
摘要
New policy approaches to facilitate the co-existence of wildlife and livestock are needed for situations where predation incidents greatly impact households' income and retaliatory killing threatens endangered carnivore species' survival. In this paper, models are developed to assess how two alternative policy approaches impact a herder's decisions on carnivore hunting and livestock protection. We find that while the well-established ex-post compensation policy induces suboptimal livestock protection it can generate sufficient incentives for the herder to refrain from hunting so that the carnivore population reaches its socially optimal level. Performance payments are proposed as alternative policy. They are found not to distort livestock protection incentives and can also help achieve a socially optimal carnivore population level. Which of the two scheme types gives rise to less cost is ambiguous. An empirical analysis of the model with data from tiger-livestock conflicts in India is presented.
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页码:287 / 301
页数:15
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