“I like to conserve the forest, but I also like the cash”. Socioeconomic factors influencing the motivation to be engaged in the Mexican Payment for Environmental Services Programme

Figueroa, Fernanda; Caro-Borrero, Ángela; Revollo-Fernández, Daniel A.; Merino, Leticia; Almeida-Leñero, Lucía; Paré, Luisa; Espinosa, Dulce; Mazarí-Hiriart, Marisa

doi:10.1016/j.jfe.2015.11.002

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“…Our results are in line with the literature suggesting that motivations related to incentive-based conservation do not come only and directly from economic incentives (Bottazzi et al, 2018;Grillos, 2017;Figueroa et al, 2016;Rode et al, 2015;Hayes, 2012;...). In particular, we found that economic incentives and barriers favoured the probability of participation of better-off households with property titles, more forested land, more agricultural tools and access to alternative income, and the intensity of their participation.…”

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“…agreements that were respected and were not enrolled on land unsuitable for agriculture or grazing and that people would not have used in the absence of the program (Bottazzi et al, 2018). Although we are not able to estimate the additionality of the ARAs in this study, our results suggest that, similar to other incentive-based conservation programs (Börner et al, 2017), the program may have enrolled farmers owning a large proportion of eligible land with a low opportunity cost, or land that they would not have used anyway (Pattanayak et al, 2010;Sánchez-Azofeifa et al, 2007;Arriagada et al, 2009;Figueroa et al, 2016).…”

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Economic, pro-social and pro-environmental factors influencing participation in an incentive-based conservation program in Bolivia

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The effectiveness of incentive-based conservation programs depends on how they influence and interact with multiple motivations of the participants. Here, we studied an incentive-based program for forest conservation in Boliviacalled "Reciprocal Water Agreements"that mixes material compensations with pro-social and pro-environmental motivations as a way to reduce crowding-out of intrinsic motivations and to increase participation. Based on a sample of 424 households who were offered the program, we analysed econometrically the households' characteristics that influenced (i) the probability of participation in the program, (ii) the intensity of the participation, measured as the area allocated in the agreement, and (iii) the modality of participation, measured as the probability of participation in the different types of agreements. We found that economic factors favoured participation of better-off households owning property titles, more forested land with lower conservation opportunity cost, more agricultural tools and access to off-farm income. In addition, both pro-social factorsa deeper or older integration into social networks, and greater compliance to social norms of reciprocity, but also weaker institutional trustas well as pro-environmental factorsincluding awareness of environmental problems, greater knowledge about solutions to environmental problems and a perceived positive balance of gains and losses in ecosystem servicesalso influenced positively the probability of participation and the area involved in the program. Finally, we found that participation into more restrictive agreements was enabled by a stronger sense of individual responsibility towards environmental problems and a weaker perceived control over environmental behaviours. Our results highlight the factors that could increase uptake and factors on which the program might focus in order to have a greater impact on pro-environmental behaviours. They also suggest that incentive-based program can be designed to take advantage of pro-social and pro-environmental motivations as strongly as of economic ones.

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Economic, pro-social and pro-environmental factors influencing participation in an incentive-based conservation program in Bolivia

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“…Regionally, we found that most current LAC literature on UES valuation is related to payment for ecosystem service instruments like water quality and biodiversity conservation (e.g. Brazil and Mexico;Larqué-Saavedra et al 2004, Machado et al 2014, Jardim and Bursztyn 2015, Cunha et al 2016, Figueroa et al 2016. Cultural UES and urban ecosystem benefits such as heritage, pollution removal, carbon sequestration, aesthetics, and others, can also be found from the Andean region, Brazil, and Mexico (Tognella- de-Rosa et al 2006;Del Angel-Perez et al 2011;Báez-Montenegro et al 2012;Ponce-Donoso et al 2012;Ordóñez and Duinker 2014;Caro-Borrero et al 2015).…”

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Urban ecosystem Services in Latin America: mismatch between global concepts and regional realities?

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Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is one of the most urbanized and biologically diverse regions in the world but is often characterized by weak environmental governance and socioeconomic inequalities. Given large expanses of intact biomes, a long history of pre-Colombian civilizations, and recent urbanization trends, the urban ecosystem services (UES) concept has the potential to address issues of well-being for its citizens. We review relevant regional and global literature and use expert-based knowledge to identify the state of the art of the UES concept as applicable to green spaces in LAC and elucidate three overarching guidelines for management and future research needs: 1. LAC cities can be socio-ecologically unique; 2. Drivers of UES in LAC can be different than in other regions; and 3. Context and demand need to be accounted for when valuing UES. Overall, we show that research on UES is mostly from the global north and rarely accounts for the diverse and complex socio-political and ecological drivers of LAC's urbanization processes. We find that, as in other regions, the biophysical context and land use policies play a major role on UES provision. However, socioeconomic inequalities and weak governance are key drivers in UES supply and demand in LAC. Context-specific information on how to promote, educate, and apply UES is particularly important, not only in LAC, but in other regions where inequities, rapid urbanization, and climate change effects are stressing socio-political and ecological systems and their adaptive capacities. Standardized approaches from developed countries should be used to complement -not substitute -LAC context specific approaches for studying and applying UES. We suggest that improved research funding and local governance can also provide critical strategies, information and the means for more effective management, planning, and equitable provision of UES.

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“…em que Φ (•) é a função distribuição acumulada da distribuição normal padrão. No caso da distribuição BEINF0, u i é uma variável aleatória distribuída uniformemente em (0,p 0 ], se y i = 0, ou, caso contrário, assume o valor de YANG et al, 2014;GREINER, 2015;TORABI et al, 2016;FIGUEROA et al, 2016;THACHER;SCHELHAS, 1996;LUZAR;DIAGNE, 1999;DUKE, 2004;ZBINDEN;LEE, 2005;DEFRANCESCO et al, 2008;ARRIAGADA et al, 2009;RUTO;GARROD, 2009;GAUVIN et al, 2010;BROCH;VEDEL, 2012;BEHARRY-BORG et al, 2013;GUO et al, 2014;JIANG;KOO, 2014;MURPHY et al, 2014). Em seguida, as variáveis foram extraídas.…”

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“…e Atitude em relação à provisão de serviços ecossistêmicos para seu próprio benefício. Fonte: Elaboração própria Uma variável que apareceu com certa frequência e que não consta acima foi a renda (LIU, 2011;LAYTON;SIIKAMÄKI, 2009;MATTA;ALAVALAPATI;MERCER, 2009;FIGUEROA et al, 2016;THACHER;SCHELHAS, 1996;LUZAR;DIAGNE, 1999;ZBINDEN;LEE, 2005;DEFRANCESCO et al, 2008;RUTO;GARROD, 2009;BROCH;VEDEL, 2012;GUO et al, 2014;JIANG;KOO, 2014;MURPHY et al, 2014). É bastante compreensível que essa variável inuencie na participação de programas de PSA, no entanto, ela não é passível de ser obtida facilmente, pois o valor não é conhecido para os proprietários não-respondentes do questionário e, portanto, não é adequada para um As variáveis candidatas foram derivadas a partir dos dados encontrados nessas fontes.…”

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Análise de custo-eficácia dos pagamentos por serviços ambientais em paisagens fragmentadas: estudo de caso de São Paulo

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Although the dependence of human activities on ecosystem services has risen in the past decades, the current rate of genetic diversity loss has substantially declined and reached alarming levels. In addition to the traditional command and control approach for the promotion of conservation, growing attention has been given to economic instruments, especially to Payments for Environmental Services (PES). Despite all potentialities of the PES instrument, many programs fail to introduce scientic knowledge in the execution. Such a lack of foundation may result in low environmental and economic performance. The present research aims at evaluating the cost-eectiveness of PES in fragmented landscapes. The study area is the state of São Paulo, which has been fragmented by the agricultural and pasture expansion, and the impacts linked to the large population growth. A survey with dierent PES programs was sent to rural landowners and responses were analyzed and linked to socioeconomic and environmental characteristics through a zero-inated beta mixed model, within the GAMLSS framework. The model was used to predict enrollment of non-respondents in dierent PES programs. Finally, the relationship between total area for restoration and the amount of resources needed for each program was compared to the environmental budget of the state of São Paulo. Results show that PES is a very costly alternative that can provide only few results for restoration. The present work has a theoretical orientation, as it contributes to the comprehension of the feasibility of PES programs in fragmented landscapes, and a practical orientation, as it quanties the amount of resources required by the programs analyzed.

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“I like to conserve the forest, but I also like the cash”. Socioeconomic factors influencing the motivation to be engaged in the Mexican Payment for Environmental Services Programme

Cited by 13 publications

References 33 publications

Economic, pro-social and pro-environmental factors influencing participation in an incentive-based conservation program in Bolivia

Economic, pro-social and pro-environmental factors influencing participation in an incentive-based conservation program in Bolivia

Urban ecosystem Services in Latin America: mismatch between global concepts and regional realities?

Análise de custo-eficácia dos pagamentos por serviços ambientais em paisagens fragmentadas: estudo de caso de São Paulo

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