Motivational crowding effects in payments for ecosystem services: Exploring the role of instrumental and relational values

Lliso, Bosco; Arias-Arévalo, Paola; Maca-Millán, Stefany; Engel, Stefanie; Pascual, Unai

doi:10.1002/pan3.10280

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“…Hence such norms, even when ostensibly concerned only with technical issues of carbon or biodiversity measurement and driven by well‐meaning considerations of good governance, have implications for justice that may be negative. The values associated with nature differ between cultures, and contextual recognition of this in flexible PES design can help increase conservation success (Lliso et al, 2022); our results support similar flexibility for justice.…”

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“…(Lliso et al, 2022); our results support similar flexibility for justice.ers. The income from carbon sales at current market prices is not enough to make profits, employ permanent staff outside of Kenya or invest widely in all the many local needs, including in providing education that could compensate for severe local disadvantage.…”

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“…Scholars worry that such commodification may encourage two specific insults to justice. The first is whether monetising nature can be compatible with earth‐centred indigenous cosmologies and whether introducing such attitudes could crowd‐out other, intrinsic approaches to valuing nature (Lliso et al, 2022; Wilshusen & MacDonald, 2017). Hence PES could occlude alternative approaches to justice by its framing.…”

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Rawls in the mangrove: Perceptions of justice in nature‐based solutions projects

Huxham,

Kairu,

Lang'at

et al. 2023

People and Nature

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Adapting to and mitigating against climate change requires the protection and expansion of natural carbon sinks, especially ecosystems with exceptional carbon density such as mangrove forests (an example of ‘blue carbon’). Projects that do this are called ‘nature‐based solutions’ (NbS). International norms regulating NbS stipulate the importance of justice, in contrast with some of the history and practice in wider conservation. However, what justice means and how it manifests in practice remain contentious. Selling carbon credits on the voluntary market is a growing source of funding for NbS. A large literature examines the ethics, economics, science and politics of such payments for ecosystem services (PES), including for blue carbon. The interpretations of justice in this context are particularly contentious, but operational blue carbon projects have not been examined from a justice perspective. Here we report on a case study involving the first blue carbon project, Mikoko Pamoja, and its sister project Vanga Blue Forest, both based in Kenya. We consider how justice is conceived by local participants and beneficiaries, using interviews, focus groups and participant observation to collect data, as well as by international stakeholders and in relevant governing documents and policy. We compare these perceptions with expectations and critiques derived a priori from the literature, including a classic thought experiment that influential justice philosopher John Rawls called the ‘original position’. In contrast to high‐level policy and much of the literature, but in common with Rawls, local stakeholders emphasised distributional aspects of justice. Locally situated interpretations of contentious issues such as elite capture and commodification differed markedly from common interpretations in the literature. Our work emphasises the importance of situating abstract concepts in their local contexts when evaluating justice in NbS projects. It shows how narratives advocating technical precision and economic efficiency in NbS can militate against transparency and agency at a local level and emphasises the critical importance of benefit sharing that is perceived to be fair. Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

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Rawls in the mangrove: Perceptions of justice in nature‐based solutions projects

Huxham,

Kairu,

Lang'at

et al. 2023

People and Nature

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“…Este resultado coincide con lo que han encontrado otras investigaciones que indican que la existencia de motivaciones y valores proambientales y prosociales, asociados a la conservación, puede promover la participación en los PSA (Rodríguez-Robayo & Merino-Perez, 2017). En línea con lo anterior, la adaptación del PSA a cosmovisiones, valores, prácticas tradicionales y necesidades específicas de la comunidad, pueden posibilitar cambios hacia comportamientos proambientales (Yin & Zhao, 2012;Izquierdo-Tort et al, 2019;Rakotomahazo et al, 2019;Lorenzo & Bueno, 2020), que incluso podrían perdurar después de la finalización de los programas de PSA (Maca-Millán et al, 2021;Lliso et al, 2021a).…”

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Implementación de pagos por servicios ambientales en la Cuenca del río Cali, Colombia: una mirada desde los sistemas socioecológicos

Arias-Arévalo

Pacheco-Valdés

2023

Rev. Econ. Sociol. Rural

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Resumen: En Colombia –un país bioculturalmente diverso y con profundas inequidades– se proyecta ampliar el uso de pagos por servicios ambientales (PSA). Esta investigación identifica los factores que influenciaron la implementación de uno de los primeros PSA desarrollados en Colombia, durante 2009-2014, en la cuenca del río Cali. Se aplicó el marco de sistemas socioecológicos (SSE), un marco que ha sido escasamente aplicado al análisis de PSA. Se realizaron 15 entrevistas a expertos y participantes del PSA y se revisó información secundaria asociada al programa. A través de un análisis de contenido, se identificó que influenciaron positivamente la implementación del PSA: la calidad y la importancia atribuida a los servicios hídricos; la participación y liderazgo de organizaciones no gubernamentales y comunitarias; y la convergencia del programa con cosmovisiones y valores proambientales. Algunos factores con influencia negativa fueron: conflictos entre actores comunitarios; reglas nacionales asociadas a la tenencia de la tierra; y los altos costos de oportunidad asociados al uso del suelo que enfrentan pequeños propietarios. El marco de los SSE contribuye a analizar la multiplicidad de resultados emergentes –ecológicos, sociales, económicos y políticos– de la implementación del PSA, los cuales frecuentemente son omitidos en diseños con énfasis en aspectos técnicos.

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“…Such transformation requires careful management, regulation, and a prioritization of rights-based approaches and devolved, local decision-making, as is advocated through the concept of 'locally led adaptation' [71]. Further, framing nature as a provider of commodifiable, monetizable services can also crowd out values and intrinsic social motivations driving stewardship (e.g., relational values), thereby hindering pro-environmental behavior change in certain contexts [21,[72][73][74].…”

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Going beyond market-based mechanisms to finance nature-based solutions and foster sustainable futures

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Failure to address the climate and biodiversity crises is undermining human well-being and increasing global inequality. Given their potential for addressing these societal challenges, there is growing attention on scaling-up nature-based solutions (NbS). However, there are concerns that in its use, the NbS concept is dissociated with the social and economic drivers of these societal challenges, including the pervasive focus on market-based mechanisms and the economic growth imperative, promoting the risk of greenwashing. In this perspective, we draw on recent research on the effectiveness, governance, and practice of NbS to highlight key limitations and pitfalls of a narrow focus on natural capital markets to finance their scaling up. We discuss the need for a simultaneous push for complementary funding mechanisms and examine how financial instruments and market-based mechanisms, while important to bridge the biodiversity funding gap and reduce reliance on public funding, are not a panacea for scaling NbS. Moreover, market-based mechanisms present significant governance challenges, and risk further entrenching power asymmetries. We propose four key recommendations to ensure finance mechanisms for biodiversity and NbS foster more just, equitable, and environmentally sustainable pathways in support of the CBD’s (Convention on Biological Diversity) 2050 vision of “living in harmony with nature”. We stress that NbS must not be used to distract attention away from reducing emissions associated with fossil fuel use or to promote an agenda for perpetual economic growth and call on government policy makers to decenter GDP growth as a core economic and political target, refocusing instead on human and ecological well-being.

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Motivational crowding effects in payments for ecosystem services: Exploring the role of instrumental and relational values

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Cited by 31 publications

References 75 publications

Rawls in the mangrove: Perceptions of justice in nature‐based solutions projects

Rawls in the mangrove: Perceptions of justice in nature‐based solutions projects

Implementación de pagos por servicios ambientales en la Cuenca del río Cali, Colombia: una mirada desde los sistemas socioecológicos

Going beyond market-based mechanisms to finance nature-based solutions and foster sustainable futures

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