Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/55837
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
UFZ Discussion Paper No. 06/2012
Publisher: 
Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung (UFZ), Leipzig
Abstract: 
A region of ecological importance which generates uncompensated cross-territorial positive spillovers has a comparatively higher fiscal need due to the direct and indirect costs it incurs for nature conservation. In order adequately to acknowledge fiscal needs relating to nature conservation, we propose an indicator based on protected area as a means of distributing general-purpose transfers and model the consequences of this for Indonesia's current system of fiscal transfer from the national to the provincial level. The results suggest that about a third of the country's provinces would benefit from the new transfer regime and that the equalizing effect of the transfers increases as the proportion of protected area increases.
Subjects: 
ecological fiscal transfers
intergovernmental fiscal transfer
biodiversity conservation
protected areas
fiscal equalization
Indonesia
JEL: 
H77
Q57
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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