The Influence of Markets and Policy on Spatial Patterns of Non-Timber Forest Product Extraction
研究了村民从森林采集燃料、饲料等非木材产品时，市场条件和政策激励如何影响其采集地点和数量的决策，并比较了缓冲区的激励政策与核心区的强制保护效果。
<i>When villagers extract resources, such as fuelwood, fodder, or medicinal plants from forests, their decisions over where and how much to extract are influenced by market conditions, their particular opportunity costs of time, minimum consumption needs, and access to markets. This paper develops an optimization model of villagers’ extraction behavior that clarifies how, and under what conditions, policies that create incentives such as improved returns to extraction in a buffer zone might be used instead of adversarial enforcement efforts to protect a forest’s pristine “inner core.”</i>