Evaluating the impacts of protected areas on human well-being across the developing world.

Autor:	Naidoo R; WWF-US, Washington, DC, USA.; Institute for Resources, Environment, and Sustainability, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada., Gerkey D; Anthropology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA., Hole D; Conservation International, Washington, DC, USA., Pfaff A; Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA., Ellis AM; Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, NC, USA., Golden CD; Harvard School of Public Health, Cambridge, MA, USA., Herrera D; Environmental Defense Fund, Washington, DC, USA., Johnson K; United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Washington, DC, USA., Mulligan M; Department of Geography, King's College London, London, UK., Ricketts TH; Gund Institute for Ecological Economics, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA., Fisher B; Gund Institute for Ecological Economics, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Science advances [Sci Adv] 2019 Apr 03; Vol. 5 (4), pp. eaav3006. Date of Electronic Publication: 2019 Apr 03 (Print Publication: 2019).
DOI:	10.1126/sciadv.aav3006
Abstrakt:	Protected areas (PAs) are fundamental for biodiversity conservation, yet their impacts on nearby residents are contested. We synthesized environmental and socioeconomic conditions of >87,000 children in >60,000 households situated either near or far from >600 PAs within 34 developing countries. We used quasi-experimental hierarchical regression to isolate the impact of living near a PA on several aspects of human well-being. Households near PAs with tourism also had higher wealth levels (by 17%) and a lower likelihood of poverty (by 16%) than similar households living far from PAs. Children under 5 years old living near multiple-use PAs with tourism also had higher height-for-age scores (by 10%) and were less likely to be stunted (by 13%) than similar children living far from PAs. For the largest and most comprehensive socioeconomic-environmental dataset yet assembled, we found no evidence of negative PA impacts and consistent statistical evidence to suggest PAs can positively affect human well-being.
Databáze:	MEDLINE
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