Design considerations in supporting payments for ecosystem services from community-managed forests in Nepal

Paudyal, Kiran; Baral, Himlal; Bhandari, Santosh P.; Keenan, Rodney J.

doi:10.1016/j.ecoser.2018.01.016

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“…The growth of CFUGs demonstrates that the institutional robustness is growing in terms of size, capacity and are achieving maturity to deal with various contemporary issues ( Andersson & Agrawal, 2011 ; Paudyal, Baral, Bhandari, & Keenan, 2018 ). In the era of climate change and growing disaster there has been huge and growing scholarly interests on the institutional dynamics, shifting priorities and environmental achievements of CFUGs in Nepal ( P. Gentle, Thwaites, Race, & Alexander, 2013 ).…”

Section: Community Forestry Institutional Capacity For Disaster Respomentioning

confidence: 99%

Effectiveness of community forest user groups (CFUGs) in responding to the 2015 earthquakes and COVID-19 in Nepal

Gentle

Maraseni

Paudel

et al. 2020

Research in Globalization

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Natural disasters and pandemics are evolving as major global threats that are posing an enormous challenge to socio-economic and environmental wellbeing. Using a real time analysis of the impressive role played by Community Forest User Groups (CFUGs) in Nepal in responding to the 2015 earthquakes (Earthquake-15) and COVID-19, this paper explores the scopes, capacities, institutional strengths and attributes required for community-based institutions such as CFUGs to become effective in managing and responding natural or other disasters. Our findings suggest that being an autonomous and well-recognized community based institution with trusted social capital (trust, connectedness, norms and network) for collective action together with its scope and mandate to democratically manage and mobilize its physical, financial, natural and human assets, CFUGs have become the most effective institution to provide immediate support to disaster affected communities. While most of other agencies including non-governmental organizations spend a lot of time exploring avenues for immediate response to the disasters, CFUGs have immediate access and infrastructure to support millions of people in rural areas. We argue that this contribution needs to be recognized, and CFUGs can provide a valuable institutional framework for the preparedness, response and recovery from disasters and to build resilience in the future.

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Section: Community Forestry Institutional Capacity For Disaster Respomentioning

confidence: 99%

Effectiveness of community forest user groups (CFUGs) in responding to the 2015 earthquakes and COVID-19 in Nepal

Gentle

Maraseni

Paudel

et al. 2020

Research in Globalization

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“…Here, we highlight the importance of stakeholders' participation. As the main intervention power, the government primarily balances the relationship between the ecosystem service suppliers and the ecosystem service beneficiaries and introduces the beneficiary pays principle (Lockie 2013;Paudyal et al 2018). Ecosystem service beneficiaries, or buyers, should be first defined according to each ecosystem service.…”

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“…First, the funds mainly come from the central government, lacking a diversified and market-oriented trading mechanism. Second, the existing payment standard is primarily based on the cost of ecological protection inputs or the opportunity cost of crop yield changes (Paudyal et al 2018;Gao et al 2020b). It is so low that participants are calling for a higher payment standard.…”

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Market-based instruments for ecosystem services: framework and case study in Lishui City, China

Gao

Hou

et al. 2020

Ecosyst Health Sustain

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Effective provision of ecosystem services (ES) and improvements in well-being of residents can be realized through policy interventions of stakeholder behavior. Among the many policies, market-based instruments (MBIs) have become the focus of global attention, despite a package of practical difficulties. As the market has the advantages of flexibility and low transaction costs, MBIs remain a comprehensive mechanism to translate the external, non-market values of ES into real financial incentives for local actors to provide such services. To couple the theory with practice and solve the key problem of unclear definition of property rights, the framework of MBIs is designed. First, property rights of market creation must be clearly defined, verifiable, transferable, enforceable, and have policy continuity. Then, four key characteristics of MBIs need to be considered in the case design, namely those involving ES, stakeholders, trading mechanisms, and guarantee mechanisms. The Pledge Financing of the Right of the Ecological Public Welfare Forest (PFREPWF) in Lishui City is a typical case of China's current marketization, which is a supplement and improvement to the ecological compensation policy. Based on clearly defined contract rights, Lishui City has realized the integration of ecological compensation and credit creation. PFREPWF reflects the value of the ecological public welfare forest and also solves the problem of insufficient participation of forest farmers due to their affected livelihoods. However, the case design still has the problems of lack of quantification and lack of correlations with ES. The theoretical and practical analysis around the market mechanism has reference value for solving market failures and providing environmental services.

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“…Bamboo ES are valuable to Balinese tourism, which generates incentives for local government. It draws the attention of the public and private sectors with their investment in landscape restoration activities and could be linked with the payments for ecosystem services (PES) mechanism (e.g., Paudyal et al 2018a).…”

Section: Case 2: Mount Batur Bali Indonesiamentioning

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Framework for assessing ecosystem services from bamboo forests: Lessons from Asia and Africa

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Adhikari²,

Sharma³

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Design considerations in supporting payments for ecosystem services from community-managed forests in Nepal

Cited by 29 publications

References 94 publications

Effectiveness of community forest user groups (CFUGs) in responding to the 2015 earthquakes and COVID-19 in Nepal

Effectiveness of community forest user groups (CFUGs) in responding to the 2015 earthquakes and COVID-19 in Nepal

Market-based instruments for ecosystem services: framework and case study in Lishui City, China

Framework for assessing ecosystem services from bamboo forests: Lessons from Asia and Africa

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