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2012 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
13. Poverty, Payments, and Ecosystem Services in the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania
verfasst von : Brendan Fisher
Erschienen in: Integrating Ecology and Poverty Reduction
Verlag: Springer New York
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Abstract
A social trap is a situation where the short-term benefits of a decision are at odds with long-term optimal outcome (Cross and Guyer 1980). Some poverty traps are social traps. For example, rampant clear-cut deforestation may have short-term payoffs but is, in many cases a long-term net loss for both the agents of deforestation and wider society. With regard to socio-ecological systems, these traps may be spatial as well as temporal – where the actions of some in one locale may adversely affect others elsewhere (economists call these externalities). In a world of rapidly changing environmental quality, our inability to solve social traps across time and space affects the immediate welfare of millions of people living at the margin, as well as the long-term welfare of society and wildlife populations writ large.