Impacts of community forest management on human economic well-being across Madagascar
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Impacts of community forest management on human economic well-being across Madagascar. / Rasolofoson, Ranaivo Andriarilala; Ferraro, Paul J.; Ruta, Giovanni; Rasamoelina, Maminiaina S.; Randriankolona, Patrick L.; Larsen, Helle Overgaard; Jones, Julia P.G.
In: Conservation Letters, Vol. 10, No. 3, 2017, p. 346–353.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Impacts of community forest management on human economic well-being across Madagascar
AU - Rasolofoson, Ranaivo Andriarilala
AU - Ferraro, Paul J.
AU - Ruta, Giovanni
AU - Rasamoelina, Maminiaina S.
AU - Randriankolona, Patrick L.
AU - Larsen, Helle Overgaard
AU - Jones, Julia P.G.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Community Forest Management (CFM) devolves forest management to local communities to achieve conservation and human well-being goals. Yet, the evidence for CFM's impacts is mixed and difficult to interpret because of inadequate attention to rival explanations for the observed empirical patterns. In a national-scale analysis in Madagascar that carefully considers these rival explanations, we estimate CFM impacts on household living standards, as measured by per capita consumption expenditures. The estimated impact is positive, but small and not statistically different from zero. However, we can statistically reject substantial negative impacts (which others have suggested may exist). The estimated impacts vary conditional on household education and proximity to forests: they are more positive and statistically significant for households closer to forest and with more education. To help improve CFM design, scholars and practitioners should anticipate heterogeneity in CFM impacts and work to better characterize them, theoretically and empirically.
AB - Community Forest Management (CFM) devolves forest management to local communities to achieve conservation and human well-being goals. Yet, the evidence for CFM's impacts is mixed and difficult to interpret because of inadequate attention to rival explanations for the observed empirical patterns. In a national-scale analysis in Madagascar that carefully considers these rival explanations, we estimate CFM impacts on household living standards, as measured by per capita consumption expenditures. The estimated impact is positive, but small and not statistically different from zero. However, we can statistically reject substantial negative impacts (which others have suggested may exist). The estimated impacts vary conditional on household education and proximity to forests: they are more positive and statistically significant for households closer to forest and with more education. To help improve CFM design, scholars and practitioners should anticipate heterogeneity in CFM impacts and work to better characterize them, theoretically and empirically.
KW - Faculty of Science
KW - Community Forest Management
KW - Effectiveness
KW - Falsification test
KW - Impact Evaluation
KW - Madagascar
KW - Matching
KW - Placebo test
KW - Poverty
KW - REDD+
KW - Welfare
U2 - 10.1111/conl.12272
DO - 10.1111/conl.12272
M3 - Journal article
VL - 10
SP - 346
EP - 353
JO - Conservation Letters
JF - Conservation Letters
SN - 1755-263X
IS - 3
ER -
ID: 163758705