Evaluation of biodiversity policy instruments: what works and what doesn't?

Miteva, Daniela A.; Pattanayak, Subhrendu K.; Ferraro, Paul J.

doi:10.1093/oxrep/grs009

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“…During the 4 years included in our sample, 40 km 2 were deforested per year per municipality on average. Underlying drivers of deforestation and land use more generally include mining (36), roads (53), and PAs (54). Eleven percent of the municipalities have mineral-extraction activities, including both legal and informal mining activities.…”

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confidence: 99%

Public health impacts of ecosystem change in the Brazilian Amazon

Bauch¹,

Birkenbach

Pattanayak

et al. 2015

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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The claim that nature delivers health benefits rests on a thin empirical evidence base. Even less evidence exists on how specific conservation policies affect multiple health outcomes. We address these gaps in knowledge by combining municipal-level panel data on diseases, public health services, climatic factors, demographics, conservation policies, and other drivers of land-use change in the Brazilian Amazon. To fully exploit this dataset, we estimate random-effects and quantile regression models of disease incidence. We find that malaria, acute respiratory infection (ARI), and diarrhea incidence are significantly and negatively correlated with the area under strict environmental protection. Results vary by disease for other types of protected areas (PAs), roads, and mining. The relationships between diseases and land-use change drivers also vary by quantile of the disease distribution. Conservation scenarios based on estimated regression results suggest that malaria, ARI, and diarrhea incidence would be reduced by expanding strict PAs, and malaria could be further reduced by restricting roads and mining. Although these relationships are complex, we conclude that interventions to preserve natural capital can deliver cobenefits by also increasing human (health) capital.infectious diseases | roads | mining | protected areas | Amazon forest

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Public health impacts of ecosystem change in the Brazilian Amazon

Bauch¹,

Birkenbach

Pattanayak

et al. 2015

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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“…As Miteva et al (2012) show in their economic analysis of biodiversity policy, routinized instruments such as protected areas have led to modest reductions in deforestation, but continue to be very popular and remain uncontested.…”

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confidence: 99%

How policy instruments are chosen: patterns of decision makers’ choices

2016

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Policy instruments are a fundamental component of public policies. Policy instruments are often a result of mediation within the policy design process, whenever decision makers reshape existing instruments without introducing any real innovation. This results in imitation, layering and ambiguity in tool choice selection, and raises the theoretical problem of the logic according to which decision makers choose certain specific policy instruments rather than others. Decision makers may have different reasons for choosing certain specific instruments, although these reasons should be connected to the two main purposes of decision-making, that is, the search for effectiveness and the construction of a shared sense, a common acceptance. Thus, the choice of instruments is a question of potentially conflicting drivers that decision makers have to cope with within a specific decisional situation, when asked to solve those problems that have arisen. This paper examines this question and offers an analytical framework based on the two main factors in terms of which the selection of instruments is channelled and assessed: legitimacy and instrumentality. The boundaries created by how decision makers perceive these two dimensions mean that only four selection patterns can be chosen by decision makers: hybridization, stratification, contamination or routinization.

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“…He then states that any advantage of one policy over another must " be due to inadequate information or uncertainty." This paper, along with the literature on procurement and contracting (Laffont and Tirole, 1993;Laffont and Martimort, 2002) has led to a number of papers applying mechanism design to agri-environmental polices (Wu andBabcock, 1996 andMoxey et al, 1999;Ferraro, 2008;Hanley et al, 2012 andMiteva et al, (2012).…”

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confidence: 99%