No. 6/2006
ECONOMIC MODELING APPROACHES
FOR WILDLIFE AND SPECIES
CONSERVATION
Anders Skonhoft
Abstract:
This paper presents modeling approaches for wildlife and species
conservation with a special
emphasis on large mammals in a developing country setting. In such countries
there are
frequently conflicts over land use and species conservation, and institutions
for managing
conflicts are often weak or even lacking. In addition, most of the world
species and
biodiversity are found in developing countries. Two main issues are discussed.
First, we study
a situation where the wildlife is valuable, but is considered a pest
by the local people living
close to the wildlife. Second, we consider models with a discrepancy
between management
geography and biological geography, and where the species flows between
a conservation area with no harvesting and a neighboring area with harvesting and possible
habitat degradation.
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