The market triumph of ecotourism: an economic investigation of the private and social benefits of competing land uses in the Peruvian Amazon
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| 作者 | Kirkby CA1,2,3; Giudice-Granados R2; Duenas-Duenas A5; Lara-Rivas JC6; Yu DW[*]1,2; Day B3; Turner K3; Velarde-Andrade LM4 |
| 刊名 | PLOS ONE
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| 出版日期 | 2010 |
| 卷号 | 5期号:9页码:e13015 |
| 通讯作者 | dougwyu@gmail.com |
| 英文摘要 | Annual revenue flow to developing countries for ecotourism (or nature-based tourism) could be as large as US$ 210 x 10(12), providing an enormous financial incentive against habitat loss and exploitation. However, is ecotourism the most privately and/or socially valuable use of rainforest land? The question is rarely answered because the relevant data, estimates of profits and fixed costs, are rarely available. We present a social cost-benefit analysis of land use in an ecotourism cluster in the Tambopata region of Amazonian Peru. The net present value of ecotourism-controlled land is given by the producer surplus (profits plus fixed costs of ecotourism lodges): US$ 1,158 ha(-1), which is higher than all currently practiced alternatives, including unsustainable logging, ranching, and agriculture. To our knowledge, this is the first sector-wide study of profitability and producer surplus in a developing-country ecotourism sector and the first to compare against equivalent measures for a spectrum of alternative uses. We also find that ecotourism-controlled land sequesters between 5.3 to 8.7 million tons of above-ground carbon, which is equivalent to between 3000-5000 years of carbon emissions from the domestic component of air and surface travel between the gateway city of Cusco and the lodges, at 2005 emission rates. Ecotourism in Tambopata has successfully monetized the hedonic value of wild nature in Amazonian Peru, and justifies the maintenance of intact rainforest over all alternative uses on narrow economic grounds alone. |
| 收录类别 | SCI |
| 资助信息 | The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. This work was supported by a United Kingdom Economic and Social Research Council/Natural Environment Research Council Interdisciplinary studentship to CK (PTA-036-2005-00028). DY received support from the Yunnan provincial government (20080A001) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (0902281081). |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 源URL | [http://159.226.149.26:8080/handle/152453/9600]  |
| 专题 | 昆明动物研究所_动物生态学研究中心 昆明动物研究所_遗传资源与进化国家重点实验室 |
| 作者单位 | 1.State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Ecology, Conservation, and Environment Center (ECEC), Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Science, Kunming, Yunnan, China 2.School of Biological Sciences, Center for Ecology, Evolution and Conservation (CEEC), University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom 3.School of Environmental Sciences, Center for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment (CSERGE), University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom 4.Conservacio ´n Ambiental y Desarrollo en el Peru ´ (CAMDE-PERU), Puerto Maldonado, Madre de Dios, Peru 5.Cooperazione e Sviluppo (CESVI), Puerto Maldonado, Madre de Dios, Peru 6.Universidad Nacional San Antonio Abad del Cusco (UNSAAC), Puerto Maldonado, Madre de Dios, Peru |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Kirkby CA,Giudice-Granados R,Duenas-Duenas A,et al. The market triumph of ecotourism: an economic investigation of the private and social benefits of competing land uses in the Peruvian Amazon[J]. PLOS ONE,2010,5(9):e13015. |
| APA | Kirkby CA.,Giudice-Granados R.,Duenas-Duenas A.,Lara-Rivas JC.,Yu DW[*].,...&Velarde-Andrade LM.(2010).The market triumph of ecotourism: an economic investigation of the private and social benefits of competing land uses in the Peruvian Amazon.PLOS ONE,5(9),e13015. |
| MLA | Kirkby CA,et al."The market triumph of ecotourism: an economic investigation of the private and social benefits of competing land uses in the Peruvian Amazon".PLOS ONE 5.9(2010):e13015. |
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