Parks and protected areas are valuable assets to developing nations, whether viewed as environmental, economic or social goods. Nevertheless, to date there are few examples where the full potential economic rent of protected areas has been captured efficiently or distributed effectively. This...

I study how the distribution of environmental goods and income affect the economic valuation of local public goods. I find that how environmental inequality affects societal willingness to pay (WTP) for environmental local public goods is determined by their substitutability as well as by how...