Fairly efficient, efficiently fair: Lessons from designing and testing payment schemes for ecosystem services in Asia

Leimona, Beria; Noordwijk, Meine van; Groot, R.S. de; Leemans, Rik

doi:10.1016/j.ecoser.2014.12.012

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“…Furthermore, the measurement of the broad range of ecosystem service flows and their values in monetary units or otherwise is a fundamental step to improve incentives and generate expenditures needed for their conservation and sustainable use, such as systems of Payments or Rewards for Ecological Services (Farley and Costanza 2010;Leimona 2011).…”

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confidence: 99%

Using economic values to evaluate management options for fish biodiversity in the Sikakap Strait, Indonesia

Rizal

Dewanti

2017

Biodiversitas

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Abstract. Rizal A, Dewanti LP. 2017. Using economic values to evaluate management options for fish biodiversity in the Sikakap Strait,. The unavailability of total economic values of fish biodiversity in Sikakap Strait, Mentawai District of West Sumatra, Indonesia both in the short and long term, has created the rejection of their existences in the coastal area. The purpose of this study was to estimate the total economic value of fish biodiversity in Sikakap Strait, West Sumatra using total economic value concepts. The fish biodiversity's total economic value is expressed by estimating the use value, indirect use value and non-use value. The study used benefit transfer and survey methods using secondary data to estimate the total economic value of fish biodiversity. The total economic value of the fish biodiversity of USD 745,602 per year was calculated by summing the direct use value (USD 4,262,884 per year), indirect use value (USD 24,560 per year), and non-use value (USD 575 per year). The research hypothesis that the fish biodiversity's sustainable resource management has economic value is supported. These values help to make decisions about allocating resources between competing uses.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Using economic values to evaluate management options for fish biodiversity in the Sikakap Strait, Indonesia

Rizal

Dewanti

2017

Biodiversitas

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“…Van Noordwijk & Leimona [74] and other authors present evidence to show that by demonstrating greater respect for local autonomy, this approach can appeal to social as well as financial sources of motivation when compared to strict conditionality with a stronger element of external control [75][76][77][78][79]. In other words, it could be an approach to promote crowding in.…”

Section: Implications For Pes Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It offers a strong analytical framework for arguments such as those put forward by van Noordwijk & Leimona ([74]) regarding the potential benefits of adapting PES to a co-investment approach that provides more space for local initiative and representation. In addition to appealing to social sources of motivation and creating space for social norms to become salient, this approach allows for a greater focus on institutional development as opposed to a narrow focus on the details of the business transaction [7,13,22,43,[74][75][76][77][78][79], as well as a greater focus on social justice [75,80]. The concrete suggestions that the interdisciplinary FINS model offers are an important addition to the literature on motivation crowding out, which to date has offered little regarding specific approaches to protect against it.…”

Section: Implications For Pes Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

Long-Term Effects of Payments for Environmental Services: Combining Insights from Communication and Economics

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Abstract:Interdisciplinary analytical perspectives can bring important insights to address complex sustainability problems. In this paper we present and apply a model that integrates perspectives from economics and communication sciences to address the question of what happens to pro-environmental behavior after the introduction and then the withdrawal of payment for environmental services (PES). In particular, we discuss the effects of financial incentives on social norms and the effects of norms on subsequent behavior after incentives have ended. This is important because the dominant literature on PES lacks a sophisticated understanding of social norms and fails to address what will happen to behavior once payments end. That literature addresses the potential problem that payments can crowd out or possibly crowd in intrinsic sources of motivation for pro-social behavior, but it lacks the sophisticated understanding of social norms that has the potential to help explain and address this phenomenon. We summarize experimental evidence based on our model showing that introducing a financial incentive for behavior change can change social norms around that behavior. These norms, in turn, can continue to influence behavior even after incentives have ended. PES programs can address this situation by actively evoking existing social norms in favor of conservation.

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“…PES are one policy that accounts for the voluntary transactions of monetized ES offerings between buyers and sellers on the basis of conditionality and additionality of service provisioning (Wunder 2005;Cathcart and Delaney 2006). As a result of the proliferation of monetary valuation methods, PES schemes have become widespread, in both developed and developing countries, and across the global north and south (Pagiola et al 2005;Wunder et al 2008;Balvanera et al 2012;Leimona et al 2015;Suich et al 2015).…”

Section: Payments For Ecosystem Service Offerings As a Policy Instrumentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Accounting for these three elements requires an understanding of the dynamic and interactive nature of the aforementioned aspects (i.e. environment) (Pagiola et al 2005;Engel et al 2008;Pascual et al 2010;Leimona et al 2015). Within a PES scheme, equity is measured by evaluating the benefits that are distributed between service providers and their beneficiaries (Pagiola et al 2005).…”

Section: Payments For Ecosystem Service Offerings As a Policy Instrumentmentioning

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A service-dominant perspective on payments for ecosystem service offerings

Matthies¹

2016

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The ecosystem service (ES) approach is a means of evaluating service value flows from ecosystems to humans for their wellbeing. The approach suggests that ecosystem functions are divided into categories according to the benefits derived and utilized by beneficiaries. The ES approach has become a tool for public and private decision-makers, driven by the need to more accurately incorporate environmental externalities into the value creation processes of economic actors.This research addresses two knowledge gaps within the ES literature. First, a service-centric approach to ES offerings is lacking, resulting in misuse of the appropriate concepts and terms when discussing their role in value networks and value creation. Second, there is limited available knowledge about how to efficiently internalize ES offerings within value networks.In the first article, a service-dominant value creation (SVC) framework, with supporting terms and concepts, was developed to guide interdisciplinary discussions about the role of ES offerings within value creation processes. The term value-in-impact was proposed as a means for discussing the trade-offs and impacts concerning ES offerings within those processes.The subsequent three articles addressed the following design aspects of Payment for Ecosystem Service (PES) schemes: (1) sensitivity to parameter inputs, (2) price volatility impacts on service providers, and (3) behavioural economic contributions. Consideration for trade-offs among ES offerings, and between ES offerings and economic objectives were also incorporated. The results indicated that the holistic accounting of ES indicators, to determine the optimal species mixtures, and uncorrelated ES price interactions, to determine the optimal allocation of forest for conservation, led to ecological and financial diversification benefits for service providers. Nudging service providers also led to more socially efficient ES provisioning. In each case, the proposed Ecosystem Service Expectation Value (ESEV) was used to more accurately describe the perpetual provisioning of multiple ES offerings on forestland.

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Fairly efficient, efficiently fair: Lessons from designing and testing payment schemes for ecosystem services in Asia

Cited by 101 publications

References 45 publications

Using economic values to evaluate management options for fish biodiversity in the Sikakap Strait, Indonesia

Using economic values to evaluate management options for fish biodiversity in the Sikakap Strait, Indonesia

Long-Term Effects of Payments for Environmental Services: Combining Insights from Communication and Economics

A service-dominant perspective on payments for ecosystem service offerings

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