Principles for Fairness and Efficiency in Enhancing Environmental Services in Asia: Payments, Compensation, or Co-Investment?

Noordwijk, Meine van; Leimona, Beria

doi:10.5751/es-03664-150417

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“…Broadly, if the reward is perceived as supportive rather than coercive, it can crowd-in intrinsic motivation to carry out a task (Frey & Jegen, 2001;Vollan, 2008). That aligns with calls to frame PES as a reciprocal or co-investment arrangement (Farley & Costanza, 2010;van Noordwijk & Leimona, 2010). Where there is a diversity of preferences related to markets and self-or other-regarding behavior, policy-makers must consider the specific implementation context in order to ensure incentive-based policies are designed and framed optimally.…”

Section: Toward Credit-based Payments For Ecosystem Servicesmentioning

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Credit-Based Payments for Ecosystem Services: Evidence from a Choice Experiment in Ecuador

Cranford

Mourato

2014

World Development

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Original citation:Cranford, Matthew and Mourato, Susana (2014). Credit-based payments for ecosystem services: evidence from a choice experiment in Ecuador. World Development. 64, pp. 503-520 ISSN 0305-750X DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2014 Reuse of this item is permitted through licensing under the Creative Commons: Covering Letter (WITH Author Details) ABSTRACTThe original conceptualization of payments for ecosystem services (PES) promoted direct payments to motivate the provision of environmental public goods, but market imperfections and behavioral considerations can mean that PES that reduce market constraints are preferred. The main issue with the latter is how to include conditionality. We propose credit-based PES (CB-PES) as an incentive that links an environmental condition with the reduction of a key market constraint. Through a choice experiment in Ecuador, CB-PES was found to be a promising form of PES, with multiple desirable qualities of an incentive as cited in the behavioral economics and PES literatures.

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Section: Toward Credit-based Payments For Ecosystem Servicesmentioning

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Credit-Based Payments for Ecosystem Services: Evidence from a Choice Experiment in Ecuador

Cranford

Mourato

2014

World Development

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“…Along with that re-definition grew an understanding that the buyer-seller paradigm of PES that was advocated under the original PES theory (Wunder, 2005) is not always appropriate, but that in many contexts a cooperative and reciprocal arrangement is needed (Muradian et al, 2010;Farley and Costanza, 2010;Fisher et al, 2010;van Noordwijk and Leimona, 2010).…”

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Community conservation and a two-stage approach to payments for ecosystem services

Cranford

Mourato

2011

Ecological Economics

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This article was published as:Cranford, M., Mourato, S., Community conservation and a two-stage approach to payments for ecosystem services, Ecol. Econ. (2011), doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2011 Abstract Recent revisions to the theory and definition of payments for ecosystem services (PES) challenge the generally accepted dominance of direct incentives provided in a buyer-seller relationship. The revisionist thinking insists indirect incentives and a cooperative, reciprocal relationship are often more appropriate. Those characteristics, however, hark back to the indirect, cooperative interventions that constitute "community conservation", which PES was originally designed as an improvement over. In that context, this study revisits the criticisms and potential benefits of community conservation. We analyze a case study of community conservation in Peru and find that it supported an uptake of forest-friendly behaviors. We take up the suggestion of a two-stage approach to PES, but refine it based on our results that indicate an important role for cognitive (e.g. education) alongside structural interventions (e.g. provision of alternatives), and a strong role for social consensus to support conservationist behavior. Community conservation can provide these elements in a first-stage of PES to create a social context conducive to conservation. Without creating that context first, PES could destabilize local resource management norms rather than improve on them. With the social context established, however, a market mechanism can be implemented in the second stage to reinforce the new conservationist behavior.

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“…Wunder (2005) suggests four key characteristics of PES mechanisms: voluntary transactions, well-defined environmental services or land use that ensures the availability of those services, the presence of at least one buyer and one provider in the market and a certain degree of reliability in the provision of the service. Most cases do not include all four of these elements and so a mechanism resembling a PES (PES-like) is created, which is not entirely consistent with the theoretical model mentioned above , Van Noordwijk & Leimona 2010.…”

Section: Forest Products and Servicesmentioning

confidence: 86%

“…According to Van Noordwijk & Leimona (2010) the attributes realistic, voluntary and conditional are attributes of effectiveness (defined in terms of the cause and effect relationship between the explicit acknowledgement of the service provision for which there may be something to pay and the action of payment). These authors identify two other essential attributes: efficiency (as a ratio of the implementation cost of the PES mechanism to the revenue derived from the payment mechanism) and equity (in revenue distribution providing income to local populations).…”

Section: Forest Products and Servicesmentioning

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Payment for forest environmental services: a meta-analysis of successful elements

Gios¹,

Rizio²

2013

iForest

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Forest ecosystems produce environmental services from which individuals benefit. In recent decades, interest in these services has significantly increased to meet the demand for new products and services related to landscape use and recreational activities. These new products and services are defined as Non-Wood Forest Products and Services (NWFP&Ss). There is the possibility, and in certain cases the need, to introduce a system of payment for these NWFP&Ss. However, the transformation of forest environmental goods and services into commercial products and services is not a straightforward process. This paper reviews a number of successful payment mechanisms for NWFP&Ss in order to examine the elements which contribute to transforming these externalities into sources of income for people living near forests

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Principles for Fairness and Efficiency in Enhancing Environmental Services in Asia: Payments, Compensation, or Co-Investment?

Cited by 103 publications

References 41 publications

Credit-Based Payments for Ecosystem Services: Evidence from a Choice Experiment in Ecuador

Credit-Based Payments for Ecosystem Services: Evidence from a Choice Experiment in Ecuador

Community conservation and a two-stage approach to payments for ecosystem services

Payment for forest environmental services: a meta-analysis of successful elements

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