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- Title
Deforestation, Land Use, and Property Rights: Empirical Evidence from Darien, Panama.
- Authors
Nelson, Gerald C.; Harris, Virginia; Stone, Steven W.
- Abstract
Economic conventional wisdom suggests that providing land users with more secure property rights will result in more sustainable land use and less deforestation. In this paper, we use spatial econometric techniques to evaluate quantitatively the effect on land use of designated property rights in three parts of Darién province—a national park where no human activity is supposed to occur, and two reserves for indigenous peoples. Results suggest that legal property rights for an indigenous population can influence land use. Geography appears to be more important than legal protection for the national park.
- Subjects
DARIEN (Panama &; Colombia); PANAMA; DARIEN (Panama : Province); DEFORESTATION; LAND use; REAL property; FORESTS &; forestry; PROTECTION of national parks &; reserves; PROPERTY rights; INDIGENOUS peoples -- Land tenure; NATIONAL parks &; reserves
- Publication
Land Economics, 2001, Vol 77, Issue 2, p187
- ISSN
0023-7639
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/3147089