How may REDD+ affect the practical, legal and institutional framework for ‘Payment for ecosystem services’ in Costa Rica?

Rosendal, G. Kristin; Schei, P. J.

doi:10.1016/j.ecoser.2014.04.009

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“…However, PSA case analysis has not led to consensus on the nature of this instrument. PSA provides a rich example of research broadening over time to consider policy context (Pagiola, ; Daniels et al , ; Le Coq et al , ; Porras et al , ; Robalino et al , , ; Fletcher and Breitling, ; Matulis, , ; Le Coq et al , ; Rosendal and Schei, ). Thus, PSA is a good case to demonstrate a framework that endeavours to go beyond ideological debate on PES instruments.…”

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Payments for Ecosystem Services as a Policy Mix: Demonstrating the institutional analysis and development framework on conservation policy instruments

Barton

Benavides²,

Chacón-Cascante

et al. 2017

Env Pol Gov

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Policy mix analysis has been applied in research on energy, climate, urban and transport policy, and more recently biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services. However, policy mix analysis has thus far been employed at a high conceptual level, focusing on describing interactions between instrument types. Policy mix analysis rarely describes instrument ‘structure’ or functional characteristics in a way that would answer the question ‘what constitutes an instrument’? We describe how the rules‐in‐use taxonomy of the Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework, developed for research on common pool resource management, can be used to characterize conservation policy instrument interactions. We demonstrate the approach on the well‐known payments for ecosystem services (PES) program in Costa Rica and cross‐compliance policies, arguing that PES is a policy mix rather than a single economic instrument. Our analysis shows how design features of PES described in the economics literature map to ‘rules‐in‐use’ in the IAD framework. The framework provides a terminology for defining what constitutes institutional context, comparing economic, regulatory and information instruments, and studying their interactions. The rules‐in‐use taxonomy of IAD is a ‘structural’ diagnostic approach, which needs to be combined with other tools that analyse the role and ‘agency’ of actors, as part of integrative environmental governance research. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment

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Payments for Ecosystem Services as a Policy Mix: Demonstrating the institutional analysis and development framework on conservation policy instruments

Barton

Benavides²,

Chacón-Cascante

et al. 2017

Env Pol Gov

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“…The financing of the Costa Rican PES program is based on tax funding and has been coined "the most successful" of its kind (GEF 2005). The World Bank, which was instrumental in triggering REDD+ development in Costa Rica (Rosendal and Schei 2014), has praised the development of the forest sector in Costa Rica because it had "evolved from an inactive sector without private organizations, technology, or specialized education, to a proactive sector with multiple organizations that lobby effectively for forest sector measures" (World Bank 2000). Today the national PES system, which is also strongly backed by the willingness of private landowners to contribute to the public good (Arriagada et al 2015), facilitates the linkage of conservation and management of forest resources with social economic development.…”

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“…The main idea behind the original PES program was to protect nature and biodiversity, but REDD+ projects include a broader range of aims, such as greater economic efficiency and plantation forestry. Some argue that this shift from conservation to carbon sequestration boils down the original purpose of the PES program (Rosendal andSchei 2014, Wallbott andFlorian-Rivero 2018).…”

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Beyond PES and REDD+: Costa Rica on the way to climate-smart landscape management?

Wallbott¹,

Siciliano²,

Lederer³

2019

E&S

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Costa Rica has a strong international reputation for conservation and sustainable management of forests, including through its national payments for environmental services (PES) system and reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+). However, to be able to take those achievements to the next level, new approaches need to be developed that integrate agriculture and environmental politics, e.g., to foster climate-smart landscape management. This would be in line with the idea of a green transformation as a necessary contribution to bring human social-ecological action back within planetary boundaries. We start from a general conceptualization of a green transformation and its potential drivers, then analyze the basis and prospects for such developments by providing a review of the country's forest politics, including a mapping of relevant stakeholders that have been influential in designing and implementing the national PES and REDD+ approaches. Based on original empirical analysis that was conducted throughout 2017, we further analyze recent institutional developments of setting up a cross-sectoral policy for agriculture and environment as part of a broader landscape management approach, including the opportunities and challenges that might arise with a view to realizing this idea on the ground.

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“…However, my interviewees from the government considered that given that in Costa Rica deforestation has been reversed, the country will not be able to demonstrate a high level of avoided deforestation under a global REDD+ fund. This is known as the ''baseline problem'' (Rosendal and Schei, 2014). Therefore, in Costa Rica my interviewees considered that the carbon market would also offer good funding alternatives for REDD+ in the country.…”

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Global forest conservation initiatives as spaces for participation in Colombia and Costa Rica

Aguilar-Støen

2015

Geoforum

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a b s t r a c tThis paper investigates the spaces for participation that have been created by readiness preparations launched in connection with the international initiative ''Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation'' (REDD+) in Colombia and Costa Rica. I analyse the emergence of these spaces and who is leading the process in each country. My findings indicate that in Costa Rica, the public sector is leading preparation activities and creating the public spaces for participation in REDD to which private actors are invited. In Colombia on the other hand, NGOs, development assistance agencies and other private actors are leading the process and the state is the invited actor. I identify four factors that determine the scope of different actors' possibilities to participate in the REDD+ spaces. These are (a) control of key resources, (b) ideological affinity, (c) the creation and dissemination of information and knowledge, and (d) the creation of norms to validate REDD+ pilot initiatives. The separation between these factors is not clear-cut and consequently they reinforce each other at different levels. The research presented here contributes to a better understanding of the implications that national REDD+ politics may have in the future functioning of the programme.

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How may REDD+ affect the practical, legal and institutional framework for ‘Payment for ecosystem services’ in Costa Rica?

Cited by 23 publications

References 25 publications

Payments for Ecosystem Services as a Policy Mix: Demonstrating the institutional analysis and development framework on conservation policy instruments

Payments for Ecosystem Services as a Policy Mix: Demonstrating the institutional analysis and development framework on conservation policy instruments

Beyond PES and REDD+: Costa Rica on the way to climate-smart landscape management?

Global forest conservation initiatives as spaces for participation in Colombia and Costa Rica

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