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Effects of Public Policies in Central America and Mexico on Deforestation
and Reforestation Trends
Amelia Min-Venditti, Dr. Forrest FleischmanEcosystem Science & Management
Texas A&M University
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Introduction Methods Findings Conclusion
Forest Cover Change
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Figure 1. Conceptual Diagram of Drivers and Policy Case
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Introduction Methods Findings Conclusion
Forest Cover Change
Forest Cover Change
= E(Payments for Ecosystem Services)
+ E(Protected Areas)
+ E(Agricultural Subsidies)
+ E(Community-Based Management)
+ E(other policies)
+ E(non-policy social drivers)
+ E(Biophysical Drivers)
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Introduction Methods Findings Conclusion
Forest Cover Change
Forest Cover Change
= E(Payments for Ecosystem Services)
+ E(Protected Areas)
+ E(Agricultural Subsidies)
+ E(Community-Based Management)
+ E(other policies)
+ E(non-policy social drivers)
+ E(Biophysical Drivers)
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Introduction Methods Findings Conclusion
Research Question
What does existing literature tell us about the impact of public policies on forest cover
change in Mesoamerica?
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Introduction Methods Findings Conclusion
Methods
• deforest* AND ("Costa Rica" OR Mexico OR Guatemala OR Honduras OR "El Salvador" OR Nicaragua OR Belize OR Panama OR "Central America" OR "Mesoamerica" OR "the Americas") AND ("pay* for eco* service*" OR "PES" OR "environment* service*" OR "compensation" OR "reward" OR "Pigouvian" OR "protect* area*" OR park* OR forest* OR ban OR law OR REDD* OR "reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation" OR "carbon credit" OR "carbon sequest*" OR "carbon trading" OR "carbon market*" OR "environment* polic*" OR "polit* eco*" OR conserv* OR "common pool resource*" OR "LUCC" OR "LCS")
• searched in the following databases: Web of Science, CAB abstrats, GreenFILE, Cusiness Source Complete, EconLit, Environment Abstracts, Environment Complete, Ag Econ, worldcat, AGRIS, and ProQuest dissertations and theses global.
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Introduction Methods Findings Conclusion
Methods
Policy Classes• Protected Areas• Market-based Conservation• Community-Based Management• Agricultural Subsidies
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Introduction Methods Findings Conclusion
Descriptive statistics
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Introduction Methods Findings Conclusion
Temporal Distribution
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Introduction Methods Findings Conclusion
Intellectual Distribution
78 were found in 62 journals with 1 or 2 incidences
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Introduction Methods Findings Conclusion
Geographic Distribution
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Introduction Methods Findings Conclusion
Geographic Distribution
Forest area data from World Bank
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Introduction Methods Findings Conclusion
Geographic Distribution
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Introduction Methods Findings Conclusion
Effects of Policies
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Introduction Methods Findings Conclusion
Summary
• >90% of studies do not enable us to measure policy impact on forest cover
• Several regions are understudied• Strong supportive evidence of PES’ positive impact on
forest cover• Other policy types have ambiguous outcomes• Little study of agriculture and social programs’ impacts
on forest cover
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Introduction Methods Findings Conclusion
Research Agenda
• Need to develop systematic studies looking at the interactions of policies within well-defined sub-regions.
• Investigations should more carefully examine the impacts of agriculture & social programs
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Thank you!
• Dr. Forrest Fleischman
• Dr. Georgianne W. Moore
• Xavier Jaime
• Jenni Simonsen
• David Switzer
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Introduction Methods Findings Conclusion
Effect of Policy by Class
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FindingsForest Cover Change Outcome
Policy Type + No change - Total
Agricultural Subsidy 4 2 19 25
Community-based Management 24 4 3 31
Deforestation Regulation 7 2 4 13
Land Tenure 14 2 25 41
Market-based Conservation 23 3 0 26
Protected Areas 44 10 13 67
Socioeconomic 9 1 13 23
Total 125 24 77 226
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Introduction Methods Findings Conclusion
Effects of policies in histograms
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Introduction Methods Findings Conclusion
Effects of policies in histograms
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