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Analyzing the Impact of Excluding Rural People from Protected Forests: Spatial Resource Degradation and Rural Welfare Elizabeth J.Z. Robinson, CSAE, Oxford University Heidi J. Albers, Oregon State University Jeffrey C. Williams, University of California WPS/2005-03 Download the Paper (PDF format) - January 5, 2005 Tell a colleague about it. Printing Tips: Select 'print as image' in the Acrobat print dialog if you have trouble printing. ABSTRACT: This paper examines how forest-dependent villagers meet a resource requirement when they are excluded from some area of a forest. Forest managers who value both pristine and degraded forest should take into account a "displacement effect" resulting in more intensive villager extraction elsewhere, and a "replacement effect" in which villagers purchase more of the resource from the market. Similarly, forest managers who have poverty concerns should recognize that exclusion zones tend to be more costly to villagers without market access and those with low opportunity costs of labour - typically the poorest villagers. SUGGESTED CITATION: Elizabeth J.Z. Robinson, Heidi J. Albers, and Jeffrey C. Williams, "Analyzing the Impact of Excluding Rural People from Protected Forests: Spatial Resource Degradation and Rural Welfare" (January 5, 2005). The Centre for the Study of African Economies Working Paper Series. Working Paper 237. http://www.bepress.com/csae/paper237