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dc.titleAlternatives for Habitat Protection and Rural Income Generation
dc.contributor.authorSouthgate, Douglas
dc.contributor.orgunitRegional Operations Department
dc.coverageCosta Rica
dc.coverageEcuador
dc.coverageBrazil
dc.coverageCentral America
dc.coverageSouth America
dc.date.available2011-09-14T00:00:00
dc.date.issue1997-03-01T00:00:00
dc.description.abstractThe key question the research in this paper tries to answer is whether those four activities truly represent a viable economic alternative in Latin America's environmentally fragile hinterlands. Several cases in each line of activity are analyzed to determine the level and distribution of the net financial returns they generate. Special attention was devoted to examining the degree to which net returns flow to local populations, as opposed to other economic agents. In general, examination of the rewards local populations can expect to derive from ecotourism and the harvesting of nontimber forest products suggests that allocating time and effort to those activities is unlikely to be very remunerative since unskilled labor is not particularly scarce in rural areas. In addition, little is to be gained by controlling access to natural resources, which for the most part are abundant. Moreover, making the sector-specific human capital and other investments needed for forest dwellers to capture more of the net returns from ecotourism, genetic prospecting, and so forth would probably not benefit them very much. Instead, furnishing them with education and training
dc.format.extent59
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0008857
dc.identifier.urlhttps://publications.iadb.org/publications/english/document/Alternatives-for-Habitat-Protection-and-Rural-Income-Generation.pdf
dc.language.isoen
dc.mediumAdobe PDF
dc.publisherInter-American Development Bank
dc.subjectEnvironmental Policy
dc.subjectForest and Forestry
dc.subjectTourism
dc.subjectFishery
dc.subjectBiodiversity
dc.subjectNatural Resources Management
dc.subject.keywordshabitat protection, ecuador, brazil, galapagos islands, costa rica, ecotourism, biological resources and pharmaceutical industry,
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