Estimating the impacts of conservation on ecosystem services and poverty by integrating modeling and evaluation

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 24, 2015, Pages 7420-7425

  Ferraro, Paul J ^a   Hanauer, Merlin M ^b   Miteva, Daniela A ^c,d   Nelson, Joanna L ^c,e   Pattanayak, Subhrendu K ^f   Nolte, Christoph ^g   Sims, Katharine R E ^h  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SONOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c THE NATURE CONSERVANCY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^h AMHERST COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Avoided emissions; Parks; Quasi experiment; Sequestration; Tropical forest

Indexed keywords

CARBON;

ARTICLE; CARBON STORAGE; COSTA RICA; DEFORESTATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; MEASUREMENT ERROR; NULL HYPOTHESIS; POVERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRAM IMPACT; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST; BRAZIL; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; FOREST; HUMAN; INDONESIA; STATISTICAL MODEL; THAILAND;

BRAZIL; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COSTA RICA; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; FORESTS; HUMANS; INDONESIA; MODELS, ECONOMIC; POVERTY; THAILAND;

EID: 84935826900     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1406487112     Document Type: Article

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