Economic incentives perverse to the conservation of biodiversity

Economic incentives perverse to the conservation of biodiversity

No economic incentive is designed as a perverse incentive. However, looking to promote specific behaviors, such policy instrument may generate negative reactions as it produces results incompatible with the set objectives. It is in this way that economic incentives designed to produce increases in farm production, the adaptation of lands, or any other type of development activity, may also be promoting the degradation or overexploitation of biological resources.
This project seeks to prove that the offer for biodiversity conservation is below its potential, due to the fact that the economic incentives aimed at alternative activities create an artificial increase in the cost of conservation opportunities. The central objective of the study is to identify such incentives and propose modifications to mitigate or eliminate their negative effect on the offer levels relating to the conservation of biodiversity.

During the development of this study, a hypothesis that includes the theoretical frame and the application methodology has been advanced. Currently the project is in the phase of adjusting such hypothesis and of selecting the definitive geographic areas where the research will be applied.

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