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- Title
Trade-offs in nature tourism: contrasting parcel-level decisions with landscape conservation planning.
- Authors
Allen, Karen E.
- Abstract
A challenge for landscape planning is to understand how trade-offs are differently negotiated across privately held parcels and how economic incentives for conservation affect these trade-offs. I used the efficiency frontier framework to explore the trade-offs associated with the nature tourism industry, an economic incentive for conservation, in Monteverde, Costa Rica. I modeled regional changes in forest cover from 1985 through 2009, dates that coincide with the boom in the nature tourism industry. Interview data were used to understand the social context of these forest cover changes and the negotiation of trade-offs from the perspective of individual parcel owners. The results suggest that nature tourism can provide a win-win conservation scenario on individual parcels in which livelihood opportunities coincide with forest regrowth. However, nature tourism has the potential to introduce market feedback that can both complicate livelihood sustainability and hinder multiple ecosystem service provisioning.
- Subjects
RESEARCH on conservation of natural resources; TOURISM research; BIOTIC communities; ECOLOGICAL research; FORESTRY research; SOCIAL ecology
- Publication
Ecology & Society, 2015, Vol 20, Issue 1, p269
- ISSN
1708-3087
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5751/ES-07058-200121