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Trade-Offs in Nature Tourism: Contrasting Parcel-Level Decisions With Landscape Conservation Planning

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dc.contributor.author Allen, Karen E.
dc.date.accessioned 2015-07-08T19:46:47Z
dc.date.available 2015-07-08T19:46:47Z
dc.date.issued 2015 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/10535/9783
dc.description.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." en_US
dc.language English en_US
dc.subject tourism en_US
dc.subject environmental services en_US
dc.title Trade-Offs in Nature Tourism: Contrasting Parcel-Level Decisions With Landscape Conservation Planning en_US
dc.type Journal Article en_US
dc.type.published published en_US
dc.type.methodology Case Study en_US
dc.coverage.region Central America & Caribbean en_US
dc.coverage.country Costa Rica en_US
dc.subject.sector New Commons en_US
dc.identifier.citationjournal Ecology and Society en_US
dc.identifier.citationvolume 20 en_US
dc.identifier.citationnumber 1 en_US
dc.identifier.citationmonth March en_US


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