WILDLIFE DAMAGE AND AGRICULTURE :AD YNAMIC ANALYSIS OF COMPENSATION SCHEMES

摘要: We study the environmental and economic consequences of introducing a program to compensate peasants for damages caused by wildlife. show that widely held belief compensation induces wildlife conservation may be erroneous. In partially open economy, can lower stock result in net welfare loss local people. an trigger extinction also reduce welfare. identify conditions leading reduction discuss implications current planned programs Africa Asia. The two principal threats African are agricultural expansion hunting. Increasing human populations associated with greater conversion fragmentation wild habitats, more intense hunting pressure on remaining stocks. Increased encroachment formerly habitat sets stage conflicts between humans wildlife, casualties both sides. Perhaps most common cost imposed is damage output, where significant share production near extensive margin human-nature interface destroyed (e.g., Deodatus 2000). Predator species routinely take livestock, various other have made habit out invading fields. many areas developing world conflict tense, indeed growing tenser over time. (and emotional) costs this quite substantial—from merely at national or regional scale, outright disastrous individual house