Elephants or onions? Paying for nature in Amboseli, Kenya
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2008
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Bulte, E.
Boone, R.
Stringer, R.
Thornton, P.
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Environment and Development Economics, 2008; 13(3):395-414
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Erwin H. Bulte, Randall B. Boone, Randy Stringer and Philip K. Thornton
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Traditional grazing grounds near Amboseli National Park (Kenya) are being rapidly converted to cropland – a process that closes important wildlife corridors. We use a spatially explicit simulation model that integrates ecosystem dynamics and pastoral decision-making to explore the scope for introducing a ‘payments for ecosystem services’ scheme to compensate pastoralists for spillover benefits associated with forms of land use that are compatible with wildlife conservation. Our break-even cost analysis suggests that the benefits of such a scheme likely exceed its costs for a large part of the study area, but that ‘leakage effects’ through excessive stocking rates warrant close scrutiny.
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Published online by Cambridge University Press 06 May 2008
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008