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Questioning rent for development swaps : new market-based instruments for biodiversity acquisition and the land-use issue in tropical countries
- Source :
- International Forestry Review, International Forestry Review, Commonwealth Forestry Association, 2007, 9 (1), pp.503-513
- Publication Year :
- 2007
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Abstract
- International audience; Amongst the market-based instruments designed to protect biodiversity, some directly target acquisition of land-use rights to turn natural forests into conservation areas and protect them against destructive activities such as logging or agricultural conversion. Whereas some instruments, such as Transferable Development Rights and Conservation Easements, require the privatisation of land, conservation concessions are based on financial compensations to the state, logging companies and local populations against their rights to 'develop' these lands. This principle of 'rent for development swaps' embodied in three instruments designed for buying back land use rights must be discussed according to efficiency and equity criteria. Four issues are critical in this respect: the property rights structure, prevailing local representations, the size of the area concerned and existing institutional arrangements regarding forest resource access cost. This paper suggests that the opportunity cost of setting up large scale conservation concessions is much higher than generally suggested, especially in countries which have moved away from former discretionary allocation practices and have reformed their forest sector regulation framework according to prominent donors' recommendations. It concludes that using the so-called 'lower cost of conservation' in poorest countries, which makes large scale operation affordable for conservation investors, also raises ethical issues, since this means compensating stakeholders at their current poverty level.
- Subjects :
- D50 - Législation
Geography, Planning and Development
0211 other engineering and technologies
02 engineering and technology
forêt tropicale
010501 environmental sciences
01 natural sciences
K01 - Foresterie - Considérations générales
Economics
Utilisation des terres
Ecology
Public economics
Incitation
Payement for environmental services
Logging
1. No poverty
021107 urban & regional planning
Forestry
conservation easements
E11 - Économie et politique foncières
conservation incentives agreements
Property rights
conservation concessions
protection de la forêt
Air rights
Conservation de la nature
P01 - Conservation de la nature et ressources foncières
Opportunity cost
Indemnisation
Easement
Politique de développement
forêt primaire
K70 - Dégâts causés aux forêts et leur protection
Pays en développement
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Land use
business.industry
Equity (finance)
15. Life on land
[SDE.BE] Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology
transferable development right
Agriculture
Politique forestière
[SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology
business
Rente foncière
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14655489
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- International Forestry Review, International Forestry Review, Commonwealth Forestry Association, 2007, 9 (1), pp.503-513
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....db745762ef139850681daf20ebeb86eb