Opportunity costs: Who really pays for conservation?

摘要: Designing conservation areas entails costs that, if considered explicitly, can be minimized while still achieving targets. Here we focus on opportunity which measure forgone benefits from alternative land uses. Conservation planning studies often use partial estimates of costs, but the extent to these result in actual efficiencies has not been demonstrated. Our study partitions into three distinct smallholder agriculture, soybean agriculture and ranching. We demonstrate that single stakeholder groups inaccurate measures true inadvertently shift affect stakeholders disproportionately. Additionally, examine how spatial correlations between as well target size performance surrogate costs. conclude with cost burdens other could undermine long-term success conservation. Thus, an understanding distributions are disaggregated is necessary make informed decisions about priority areas.