PES Impact and Leakages over Several Cohorts: The Case of the PSA-H in Yucatan, Mexico

Velly, Gwenolé Le; Sauquet, Alexandre; Cortina-Villar, Sergio

doi:10.3368/le.93.2.230

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“…Our case study suggests that payments alone are insufficient to attract enough participation by Chilean fishers to scale the program and deliver significant environmental benefits. Similarly, payments alone are unlikely to sustain renewed participation in PES programs over time [ 42 , 46 ].…”

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Scaling participation in payments for ecosystem services programs

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Payments for ecosystem services programs have become common tools but most have failed to achieve wide-ranging conservation outcomes. The capacity for scale and impact increases when PES programs are designed through the lens of the potential participants, yet this has received little attention in research or practice. Our work with small-scale marine fisheries integrates the social science of PES programs and provides a framework for designing programs that focus a priori on scaling. In addition to payments, desirable non-monetary program attributes and ecological feedbacks attract a wider range of potential participants into PES programs, including those who have more negative attitudes and lower trust. Designing programs that draw individuals into participating in PES programs is likely the most strategic path to reaching scale. Research should engage in new models of participatory research to understand these dynamics and to design programs that explicitly integrate a broad range of needs, values, and modes of implementation.

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“…As a matter of fact, the PES scheme may impact those covariates (economic activities for example) which would bias the matching procedure. Note that matching methods have often been used as a pre-process to select a control group before estimating the impact through various econometric models according to the type of outcome variable or the research interests [ 49 , 77 – 80 ]. This might be especially convenient if the outcome is censored or binomial.…”

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“…Nevertheless, this only captures the impact of the program on enrolled parcels, while total estimates of additionality should also include leakages. Therefore, leakages should be estimated either through matching [ 49 , 58 ] or using a spatially lagged variables [ 80 ].…”

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Evaluating Payments for Environmental Services: Methodological Challenges

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Dutilly

2016

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Over the last fifteen years, Payments for Environmental Services (PES) schemes have become very popular environmental policy instruments, but the academic literature has begun to question their additionality. The literature attempts to estimate the causal effect of these programs by applying impact evaluation (IE) techniques. However, PES programs are complex instruments and IE methods cannot be directly applied without adjustments. Based on a systematic review of the literature, this article proposes a framework for the methodological process of designing an IE for PES schemes. It revises and discusses the methodological choices at each step of the process and proposes guidelines for practitioners.

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“…That is, we would observe a smaller impact of the formal protected areas on average. Further, unprotected ejidos receiving payments to protect forests and provide ecosystem services as well as those receiving technical assistance for monitoring and enforcement from non-governmental organizations are also likely to have lower deforestation rates, although the effect may be short-lived [11, 58, 59]. Similarly, the exclusion of the ejidos under Forest Sustainability Council (FSC) certification implies that the ejidos that are likely to perform best in terms of forest management have been excluded from the analysis and is, therefore, biasing the estimates of ejido effectiveness towards 0.…”

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The role of property rights in shaping the effectiveness of protected areas and resisting forest loss in the Yucatan Peninsula

Miteva

Ellis

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The impact of different types of land tenure in areas with high biodiversity and threats of deforestation remains poorly understood. We apply rigorous quasi-experimental methods and detailed geospatial data to assess the role of tenure regimes—communally held lands (specifically, ejidos), private property, and their impact on the effectiveness of protected areas, in reducing forest loss in a biodiversity hotspot- the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico. We find evidence that, while protected areas are effective on average, their impact depends on the underlying type of tenure regime and forest, proxied by biomass levels and biome. Protecting communally held land may reduce deforestation, specifically the loss of medium- and high-biomass forests, compared to forests under private property regimes. Our results have important policy implications for the conservation and climate change mitigation efforts on the Yucatan. However, the high variance in forest loss rates among ejidos indicates that other characteristics of ejidos may be central to understanding community-based forest conservation opportunities.

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PES Impact and Leakages over Several Cohorts: The Case of the PSA-H in Yucatan, Mexico

Cited by 29 publications

References 62 publications

Scaling participation in payments for ecosystem services programs

Scaling participation in payments for ecosystem services programs

Evaluating Payments for Environmental Services: Methodological Challenges

The role of property rights in shaping the effectiveness of protected areas and resisting forest loss in the Yucatan Peninsula

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