Payments for ecosystem services in Amazonia. The challenge of land use heterogeneity in agricultural frontiers near Cruzeiro do Sul (Acre,Brazil)

Eloy, Ludivine; Méral, Philippe; Ludewigs, Thomas; Pinheiro, Gustavo Tosello; Singer, Benjamin D.

doi:10.1080/09640568.2011.621021

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“…First, it focused only on certain practices, such as slash-and-burn cultivation, to the detriment of others such as incentives for perennial crops. It did not support activities which favored landscape heterogeneity (Eloy et al, 2012). Second, even if the farmers received the payments (which rarely occurred), they would have lost money adopting the prescribed practices due to increased labor demands (Börner et al, 2007).…”

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The political ecology of ecosystem services

2015

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International audienceHighlights(3-5 bullets max 85 char each) Abstract (should be 250 words) The current dominance of " ecosystem services " as a guiding concept for environmental management – where it appears as a neutral, obvious, taken-for-granted concept – hides the fact that there are choices implicit in its framing and in its application. In other words, it is a highly political concept.Following a political ecology framework, we investigate the origin and agency of the ecosystem services idea, its relationship to multi-scale power structures that constrain or facilitate certain outcomes, the practical difficulties of applying the idea, and its impacts for different parts of society and the environment.Building on the literature, on an analysis of theMillennium Ecosystem Assessment, and onbrief examples from tropical rain forest contexts such as Brazil and Madagascar, we investigate four moments or processes in the construction and application of the ecosystem services idea:discursive (the emergence of the term), ontological (what knowledge does the concept allow?), scientific (debates and difficulties in its practical application), and political (who wins, who loses?).All four components have ecological and political consequences. First, choices are made during the framing and institutionalization of the concept that mobilize, for example, a human-nature dichotomy and the pre-eminence of ecological and economic perspectives. Second, choices are made in the application of the concept, in terms of the type of service, the scale of analysis, and the kind of market rationality, that create winners and losers.The concept is a boundary object with widespread appeal, used in diverse ways by different interests to justify different kinds of interventions that at times might be totally opposed

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Section: In Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

The political ecology of ecosystem services

2015

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“…), can develop extended multi‐sited systems across territorial boundaries while deploying various identities and political affiliations. In this way, some families can take advantage of opportunities and, at the same time, avoid environmental restrictions, for example, by agreeing to support a conservation project while at the same time engaging in cattle ranching or logging within and outside the community area (Vadjunec, ; Eloy et al, ).…”

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New Perspectives on Mobility, Urbanisation and Resource Management in Riverine Amazônia

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International audienceIn recent years, the Amazon has experienced simultaneous processes of urbanisation and creation of protected areas. Debates over the changing role of traditional peoples in the management of such areas have largely taken place in the absence of reliable information on these popula-tions' connections to urban areas. We review the literature on Amazônia to explore how rural–urban mobility redefines patterns of resource use. The focus is primarily on riverine areas of the Brazilian Amazon. Connection to urban areas does not necessarily imply deep changes in production techniques, but induces new norms, rules and values around access to and management of resources. Rural–urban mobility challenges the capacity of local groups to maintain collective resource management, but on the other hand involves the reassertion of traditional territories and identities through social and economic networks. Mobility and migration have long been integral to the livelihood patterns and political strategies of rural and indigenous populations in Latin America (Adams et al., 2009; Alexiades, 2009). Recently, however, the magnitude of social dispersion and changes in settlement patterns associated with rapid urbanisation have renewed research interest in the implications of these processes for resource use and management in general (Wright and Muller-Landau, 2006), and within the Amazon basin in particular (McSweeney and Jokisch, 2007; Padoch et al., 2008). Urbanisation in Amazônia has been better studied on agricultural frontiers (Browder and Godfrey, 1997; Barbieri et al., 2009) than along the floodplains and the Amazon's main tributaries. However, these areas are increasingly important for resource conservation in the region (Parry et al., 2010a). Indeed, a

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“…This spatial heterogeneity in personal circumstances and preferences across the landscape unquestionably challenges policy design. Other studies point to this issue as well, including Eloy et al (2012) who highlight how spatial heterogeneity of land-users in Amazonia challenges the implementation of forest conservation policies, such as payments for ecosystem services (e.g., REDD?). Also, while identifying the policy preferences of local farmers can be very helpful to inform policy-making at the local level, if such preferences are scaled to larger regions, the value of such ''predictor variables'' may be limited.…”

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Designing conservation-development policies for the forest frontier

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The conservation of forests in expanding frontier landscapes is critically important to maintain intact forest ecosystems and support forest dependent communities. To conserve frontier forests, policy approaches are needed that conserve forests and advance the well-being of local resource dependent communities. To identify such approaches, the forest conservation and development framework (FCDF) was designed to find place-based conservation-development policies that target system leveragepoints influencing land-use practices. To demonstrate the utility of the FCDF, a portfolio of conservation-development policies were identified for Peru's Manu-Tambopata Corridor (MAT) and evaluated by local land-users. Results of the MAT case study show high levels of interest in the proposed policies, but a wide variation in interest levels relative to personal circumstances and policies proposed. Barriers to implementing conservation-development policies in frontier environments were also identified, including high value land-use alternatives generating high opportunity costs for accepting PES payments (e.g., REDD?), insecure land tenure and conflicting authorizations limiting land-users policy choices, and broad demographic diversity among local land-users. Collectively, this research suggests the FCDF is a useful approach for identifying policies matched to local conditions that advance conservation and human development. This research also indicates policy design in frontier environments is most effective when adapted to local conditions, seeks to identify a mix of complementary policies, and is targeted at key system variables influencing land-use practices (i.e., system leverage-points). Importantly, the MAT case study also highlights how even in rapidly changing frontier landscapes, land-users are interested in policies that advance conservation and development goals.

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Payments for ecosystem services in Amazonia. The challenge of land use heterogeneity in agricultural frontiers near Cruzeiro do Sul (Acre,Brazil)

Cited by 31 publications

References 46 publications

The political ecology of ecosystem services

The political ecology of ecosystem services

New Perspectives on Mobility, Urbanisation and Resource Management in Riverine Amazônia

Designing conservation-development policies for the forest frontier

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