Ecological fiscal transfers at the provincial level in Indonesia

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A region of ecological importance which generates uncompensated cross-territorial positive spillovers has a comparatively higher fiscal need due to the direct and indirect costs it incurs for nature conservation. In order adequately to acknowledge fiscal needs relating to nature conservation, we propose an indicator based on protected area as a means of distributing general-purpose transfers and model the consequences of this for Indonesia's current system of fiscal transfer from the national to the provincial level. The results suggest that about a third of the country's provinces would benefit from the new transfer regime and that the equalizing effect of the transfers increases as the proportion of protected area increases.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: UFZ Discussion Paper ; No. 06/2012

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Intergovernmental Relations; Federalism; Secession ; Ecological Economics: Ecosystem Services; Biodiversity Conservation; Bioeconomics; Industrial Ecology
• Subject: ecological fiscal transfers ; intergovernmental fiscal transfer ; biodiversity conservation ; protected areas ; fiscal equalization ; Indonesia ; Öffentlicher Transfer ; Umweltschutz ; Finanzausgleich ; Region ; Biodiversität ; Naturschutz ; Indonesien

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Mumbunan, Sonny ; Ring, Irene ; Lenk, Thomas
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung (UFZ)
• (where): Leipzig
• (when): 2012

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/55837
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