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Designing A Global Mechanism For Intergovernmental Biodiversity Financing, Nils Droste, Joshua Farley, Irene Ring, Peter H. May, Taylor H. Ricketts
Designing A Global Mechanism For Intergovernmental Biodiversity Financing, Nils Droste, Joshua Farley, Irene Ring, Peter H. May, Taylor H. Ricketts
Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources Faculty Publications
The Convention on Biological Diversity and the Nagoya Protocol display a broad international consensus for biodiversity conservation and equitable benefit sharing. Yet, the Aichi biodiversity targets show a lack of progress and thus indicate a need for additional action such as enhanced and better targeted financial resource mobilization. To date, no global financial burden-sharing instrument has been proposed. Developing a global-scale financial mechanism to support biodiversity conservation through intergovernmental transfers, we simulate three allocation designs: ecocentric, socioecological, and anthropocentric. We analyze the corresponding incentives needed to reach the Aichi target of terrestrial protected area coverage by 2020. Here we show …
Local Costs Of Conservation Exceed Those Borne By The Global Majority, Jonathan M.H. Green, Brendan Fisher, Rhys E. Green, Joseph Makero, Philip J. Platts, Neema Robert, Marije Schaafsma, R. Kerry Turner, Andrew Balmford
Local Costs Of Conservation Exceed Those Borne By The Global Majority, Jonathan M.H. Green, Brendan Fisher, Rhys E. Green, Joseph Makero, Philip J. Platts, Neema Robert, Marije Schaafsma, R. Kerry Turner, Andrew Balmford
Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources Faculty Publications
Cost data are crucial in conservation planning to identify more efficient and equitable land use options. However, many studies focus on just one cost type and neglect others, particularly those borne locally. We develop, for a high priority conservation area, spatial models of two local costs that arise from protected areas: foregone agricultural opportunities and increased wildlife damage. We then map these across the study area and compare them to the direct costs of reserve management, finding that local costs exceed management costs. Whilst benefits of conservation accrue to the global community, significant costs are borne by those living closest. …