ArticleScience advances2019
Evaluating the impacts of protected areas on human well-being across the developing world.
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- Measuring Adult Health and Well-Being Outcomes Associated With Nature Contact in Parks and Other Forms of Protected Areas: Protocol for a Scoping Review.JMIR research protocols · 2025Article
- Managing protected areas takes a village.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Population dynamics and the role of protected areas in China's milu deer (Elaphurus davidianus) rewilding.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Global prioritization schemes vary in their impact on the placement of protected areas.PloS one · 2025Article
- The socioeconomic and environmental niche of protected areas reveals global conservation gaps and opportunities.Nature communications · 2024Article
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- Private management of African protected areas improves wildlife and tourism outcomes but with security concerns in conflict regions.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Assessing the influence of landscape conservation and protected areas on social wellbeing using random forest machine learning.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Challenges beyond reaching a 30% of area protection.npj biodiversity · 2024Review
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Abstract
Protected areas (PAs) are fundamental for biodiversity conservation, yet their impacts on nearby residents are contested. We synthesized environmental and socioeconomic conditions of >87,000 children in >60,000 households situated either near or far from >600 PAs within 34 developing countries. We used quasi-experimental hierarchical regression to isolate the impact of living near a PA on several aspects of human well-being. Households near PAs with tourism also had higher wealth levels (by 17%) and a lower likelihood of poverty (by 16%) than similar households living far from PAs. Children under 5 years old living near multiple-use PAs with tourism also had higher height-for-age scores (by 10%) and were less likely to be stunted (by 13%) than similar children living far from PAs. For the largest and most comprehensive socioeconomic-environmental dataset yet assembled, we found no evidence of negative PA impacts and consistent statistical evidence to suggest PAs can positively affect human well-being.
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