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Reprint of: Linking conservation and welfare: A theoretical model with application to Nepal |
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| Institution: | 1. GRÉDI - Département d''économique - Université de Sherbrooke, Canada;2. LAMETA - Université de Montpellier, France;1. Department of Agribusiness and Agricultural Economics, University of Manitoba, 377-66 Dafoe Road, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3T 2N2;2. Department of Geography, University of Guelph, 50 Stone Road East, Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1G 2W1;1. Abt Associates, Inc., Cambridge, MA 02138, USA;2. George Perkins Marsh Institute and Department of Economics, Clark University, 950 Main St., Worcester, MA 01610, USA;1. Department of Mathematical Sciences, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan, Republic of Korea;2. Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto, ON M5S 2E4, Canada;3. Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Seoul, Republic of Korea |
| Abstract: | Theoretical articles linking conservation and welfare find a negative relationship between these two variables while empirical studies show that land protection may be positively related to welfare. Several authors attribute this empirical result to the development of ecotourism in protected areas. We thus argue that the gap between the theory and existing empirical results is partly explained by the fact that most theoretical models do not account for a productive activity on protected land. Therefore, we develop a theoretical model in which conservation allows developing an alternative sector and show that the relationship between conservation and welfare is U-shaped. We test this theoretical prediction using Nepalese data and find that conservation combined with ecotourism is indeed positively related to local welfare. |
| Keywords: | Welfare Conservation Ecotourism Protected areas Nepal |
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