Taking stock: A comparative analysis of payments for environmental services programs in developed and developing countries

Wunder, Sven; Engel, Stefanie; Pagiola, Stefano

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2008.03.010

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“…Significant efforts including The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity study (TEEB 2011), The Natural Capital project (Kareiva et al 2011), diverse approaches of payments for ecosystem services (Wunder et al 2008), green accounting and inclusive wealth (e.g. Mäler et al 2008), corporate ecosystem services reviews (e.g.…”

Section: Accounting For Natural Capitalmentioning

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Reconnecting to the Biosphere

Folke

Jansson

Rockström

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Humanity has emerged as a major force in the operation of the biosphere, with a significant imprint on the Earth System, challenging social-ecological resilience. This new situation calls for a fundamental shift in perspectives, world views, and institutions. Human development and progress must be reconnected to the capacity of the biosphere and essential ecosystem services to be sustained. Governance challenges include a highly interconnected and faster world, cascading social-ecological interactions and planetary boundaries that create vulnerabilities but also opportunities for social-ecological change and transformation. Tipping points and thresholds highlight the importance of understanding and managing resilience. New modes of flexible governance are emerging. A central challenge is to reconnect these efforts to the changing preconditions for societal development as active stewards of the Earth System. We suggest that the Millennium Development Goals need to be reframed in such a planetary stewardship context combined with a call for a new social contract on global sustainability. The ongoing mind shift in human relations with Earth and its boundaries provides exciting opportunities for societal development in collaboration with the biosphere-a global sustainability agenda for humanity.

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Section: Accounting For Natural Capitalmentioning

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Reconnecting to the Biosphere

Folke

Jansson

Rockström

et al. 2011

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“…Such activities include, among others, implementing measures to conserve soils or protect biodiversity. These so-called green payment programs have been implemented in developed and developing countries alike (see for example OECD 1997;Ferraro 2001 andWunder et al 2008), and usually take the form of contracts between a regulator (or donor) and individual farmers. Typically, these contracts specify the type and level of conservation activities the farmer is required to undertake on his land, as well as the amount of money he receives in compensation.…”

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Optimal Conservation Programs, Asymmetric Information and the Role of Fixed Costs

Arguedas

Soest

2011

Environ Resource Econ

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An increasing number of environmental protection programs offers financial compensation to farmers in exchange for conservation services. Incentive-compatible contracts can be designed to mitigate excess compensation, but the extant literature suggests that outcomes are always second-best so that other instruments (such as conservation auctions) may be preferred. We argue that the claim regarding the first-best solution never being incentive-compatible is correct if all conservation costs are variable in nature; if there are fixed costs too, the first-best compensation scheme may be incentive-compatible after all. Given the relevance of fixed costs in conservation issues, we conclude that incentive-compatible contracts should be given a second chance as a policy measure to induce conservation. Keywords Asymmetric information · Payments for ecosystem services · Mechanism design JEL ClassificationD82 · H23 · Q57We wish to thank two anonymous referees for their excellent comments, which helped us to substantially improve the paper's exposition and to sharpen the paper's policy implications. We would also like to thank Justin Dijk as well as participants at the 9th annual Bioecon conference for their comments and suggestions. Carmen Arguedas is grateful to the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation for their financial support (ECO2008-00510), and Daan van Soest wishes to acknowledge the financial support by "Knowledge for Climate" Program.

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“…In 2015, forests that were designated to protect FESs represented 31% of the total global forest area (FAO 2016). Data from practice on the design features that support the principles of efficiency, effectiveness and equity have shown mixed results from market-based FES initiatives (Landell-Mills & Porras 2002;Pagiola et al 2002;Porras et al 2008, Wunder et al 2008. Among the successes, incentive-based FES programmes have reduced conversion of broadleaf tropical forest into agricultural land (Keenan et al 2015;MacDicken 2015) and slowed net forest loss from 0.18% of total forests in 1990-2000 (10.6 million ha) to 0.08% (6.5 million ha) during 2010-2015.…”

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Evaluating incentive-based programs to support forest ecosystem services

Nikolakis

Innes

2017

Envir. Conserv.

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Forests are the most widespread terrestrial ecosystem on Earth. In 2015, natural forests accounted for 93% (3.7 billion ha) of this global forest area (FAO 2016), albeit only 26% of these are primary forest (i.e. old-growth or ancient woodland). Since 1990, 31 million ha of primary forest have been modified or cleared, and a net loss of 129 million ha of natural forest has occurred (–0.13%/year) (FAO 2016). This deforestation has largely been in tropical South America and Africa, where forests have been cleared and converted for agricultural uses, resulting in habitat loss and carbon emissions.

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Taking stock: A comparative analysis of payments for environmental services programs in developed and developing countries

Cited by 931 publications

References 28 publications

Reconnecting to the Biosphere

Reconnecting to the Biosphere

Optimal Conservation Programs, Asymmetric Information and the Role of Fixed Costs

Evaluating incentive-based programs to support forest ecosystem services

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