Good for the Economy, Good for the Planet? How Foreign Direct Investment Affects Protected Areas

• In Event: Globalization and Violence

Brief Overview

We focus on the conflicting incentives that FDI poses on the creation of protected areas to protect biodiversity. We identify conditions under which FDI flows and stock affect the extension, and rate of growth of countries’ protected areas.

Authors

• Ana Carolina Garriga, University of Essex

• Muzhou Zhang, University of Essex