“…That paper goes further to suggest that a large-scale conservation group trying to target communities in which to encourage conservation referenda could benefit by focusing efforts less disproportionately on wealthy, white, Northeastern communities and more towards communities in the Southeast with significant minority populations. However, theoretical work by Warziniack (2010) finds that in the presence of spillovers of conservation benefits among communities, local provision of open space by majority voting is unlikely to achieve efficient provision of conservation -many conservation projects that would be welfare improving will fail to pass a majority vote. Local referenda alone will not be sufficient to finance efficient levels and patterns of conservation.…”