Are indigenous territories effective natural climate solutions? A neotropical analysis using matching methods and geographic discontinuity designs.

Indigenous Territories (ITs) with less centralized forest governance than Protected Areas (PAs) may represent cost-effective natural climate solutions to meet the Paris agreement. However, the literature has been limited to examining the effect of ITs on deforestation, despite the influence of anthr...

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Autores principales: Camilo Alejo, Chris Meyer, Wayne S Walker, Seth R Gorelik, Carmen Josse, Jose Luis Aragon-Osejo, Sandra Rios, Cicero Augusto, Andres Llanos, Oliver T Coomes, Catherine Potvin
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:5e61eeb886d944df89dba35828f09dec2021-12-02T20:05:06ZAre indigenous territories effective natural climate solutions? A neotropical analysis using matching methods and geographic discontinuity designs.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0245110https://doaj.org/article/5e61eeb886d944df89dba35828f09dec2021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0245110https://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203Indigenous Territories (ITs) with less centralized forest governance than Protected Areas (PAs) may represent cost-effective natural climate solutions to meet the Paris agreement. However, the literature has been limited to examining the effect of ITs on deforestation, despite the influence of anthropogenic degradation. Thus, little is known about the temporal and spatial effect of allocating ITs on carbon stocks dynamics that account for losses from deforestation and degradation. Using Amazon Basin countries and Panama, this study aims to estimate the temporal and spatial effects of ITs and PAs on carbon stocks. To estimate the temporal effects, we use annual carbon density maps, matching analysis, and linear mixed models. Furthermore, we explore the spatial heterogeneity of these estimates through geographic discontinuity designs, allowing us to assess the spatial effect of ITs and PAs boundaries on carbon stocks. The temporal effects highlight that allocating ITs preserves carbon stocks and buffer losses as well as allocating PAs in Panama and Amazon Basin countries. The geographic discontinuity designs reveal that ITs' boundaries secure more extensive carbon stocks than their surroundings, and this difference tends to increase towards the least accessible areas, suggesting that indigenous land use in neotropical forests may have a temporarily and spatially stable impact on carbon stocks. Our findings imply that ITs in neotropical forests support Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) under the Paris Agreement. Thus, Indigenous peoples must become recipients of countries' results-based payments.Camilo AlejoChris MeyerWayne S WalkerSeth R GorelikCarmen JosseJose Luis Aragon-OsejoSandra RiosCicero AugustoAndres LlanosOliver T CoomesCatherine PotvinPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 7, p e0245110 (2021)
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Camilo Alejo
Chris Meyer
Wayne S Walker
Seth R Gorelik
Carmen Josse
Jose Luis Aragon-Osejo
Sandra Rios
Cicero Augusto
Andres Llanos
Oliver T Coomes
Catherine Potvin
Are indigenous territories effective natural climate solutions? A neotropical analysis using matching methods and geographic discontinuity designs.
description Indigenous Territories (ITs) with less centralized forest governance than Protected Areas (PAs) may represent cost-effective natural climate solutions to meet the Paris agreement. However, the literature has been limited to examining the effect of ITs on deforestation, despite the influence of anthropogenic degradation. Thus, little is known about the temporal and spatial effect of allocating ITs on carbon stocks dynamics that account for losses from deforestation and degradation. Using Amazon Basin countries and Panama, this study aims to estimate the temporal and spatial effects of ITs and PAs on carbon stocks. To estimate the temporal effects, we use annual carbon density maps, matching analysis, and linear mixed models. Furthermore, we explore the spatial heterogeneity of these estimates through geographic discontinuity designs, allowing us to assess the spatial effect of ITs and PAs boundaries on carbon stocks. The temporal effects highlight that allocating ITs preserves carbon stocks and buffer losses as well as allocating PAs in Panama and Amazon Basin countries. The geographic discontinuity designs reveal that ITs' boundaries secure more extensive carbon stocks than their surroundings, and this difference tends to increase towards the least accessible areas, suggesting that indigenous land use in neotropical forests may have a temporarily and spatially stable impact on carbon stocks. Our findings imply that ITs in neotropical forests support Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) under the Paris Agreement. Thus, Indigenous peoples must become recipients of countries' results-based payments.
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author Camilo Alejo
Chris Meyer
Wayne S Walker
Seth R Gorelik
Carmen Josse
Jose Luis Aragon-Osejo
Sandra Rios
Cicero Augusto
Andres Llanos
Oliver T Coomes
Catherine Potvin
author_facet Camilo Alejo
Chris Meyer
Wayne S Walker
Seth R Gorelik
Carmen Josse
Jose Luis Aragon-Osejo
Sandra Rios
Cicero Augusto
Andres Llanos
Oliver T Coomes
Catherine Potvin
author_sort Camilo Alejo
title Are indigenous territories effective natural climate solutions? A neotropical analysis using matching methods and geographic discontinuity designs.
title_short Are indigenous territories effective natural climate solutions? A neotropical analysis using matching methods and geographic discontinuity designs.
title_full Are indigenous territories effective natural climate solutions? A neotropical analysis using matching methods and geographic discontinuity designs.
title_fullStr Are indigenous territories effective natural climate solutions? A neotropical analysis using matching methods and geographic discontinuity designs.
title_full_unstemmed Are indigenous territories effective natural climate solutions? A neotropical analysis using matching methods and geographic discontinuity designs.
title_sort are indigenous territories effective natural climate solutions? a neotropical analysis using matching methods and geographic discontinuity designs.
publisher Public Library of Science (PLoS)
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