Financing National Protected Area Networks Internationally: The Global Environment Facility as a Multilateral Mechanism of Transfer

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Nationally implemented protected area measures for biodiversity conservation generate cross-border externalities. For internalizing these externalities at the international level, the Global Environment Facility (GEF) has been established as a multilateral mechanism of transfer. This paper empirically analyzes the use of GEF funds for protected area projects in biodiverse developing countries. It turns out that transfers generally do not play the role of compensations in that they directly balance foregone payoffs from alternative land uses. The funds are also not primarily directed to the expansion of protected area systems but address improvements in the management of already legally designated sites.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Kiel Working Paper ; No. 1227

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Environment and Development; Environment and Trade; Sustainability; Environmental Accounts and Accounting; Environmental Equity; Population Growth ; Renewable Resources and Conservation: Government Policy ; Economic Development: Agriculture; Natural Resources; Energy; Environment; Other Primary Products ; Ecological Economics: Ecosystem Services; Biodiversity Conservation; Bioeconomics; Industrial Ecology
• Subject: Biodiversity ; Conservation ; Land Use ; Global Environment Facility ; International Institutions ; Biodiversität ; Naturschutz ; Internationaler Transfer ; Entwicklungshilfe ; Umweltabkommen ; Internalisierung externer Effekte ; Welt

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Deke, Oliver
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Kiel Institute for World Economics (IfW)
• (where): Kiel
• (when): 2004

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/17771
• Last update: 2025-03-10T11:41:36+0100