On the efficiency of environmental service payments: A forest conservation assessment in the Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica

Sierra, Rodrigo; Russman, Eric

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2005.10.010

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“…Previous studies suggested that PES programs have reduced soil and wind erosions (Osborn et al 1993), restored deteriorated ecosystems (Dunn et al 1993, Sierra andRussman 2006), and provided habitat to wildlife (Johnson and Schwartz 1993, McMaster and Davis 2001, Asquith et al 2008. Most evaluations of the effectiveness of conservation investments rely on comparisons of aggregated environmental outcomes with and without conservation interventions (Salafsky and Margoluis 1999, Cullen et al 2001, Viña et al 2007), without taking heterogeneous human decision making into consideration.…”

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Assessing the Effectiveness of Payments for Ecosystem Services: an Agent-Based Modeling Approach

Chen¹,

Viña²,

Shortridge³

et al. 2014

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ABSTRACT. Payments for ecosystem services (PES) have increasingly been implemented to protect and restore ecosystems worldwide. The effectiveness of conservation investments in PES may differ under alternative policy scenarios and may not be sustainable because of uncertainties in human responses to policies and dynamic human-nature interactions. To assess the impacts of these interactions on the effectiveness of PES programs, we developed a spatially explicit agent-based model: human and natural interactions under policies (HANIP). We used HANIP to study the effectiveness of China's Natural Forest Conservation Program (NFCP) and alternative policy scenarios in a coupled human-nature system, China's Wolong Nature Reserve, where indigenous people's use of fuelwood affects forests. We estimated the effects of the current NFCP, which provides a cash payment, and an alternative payment scenario that provides an electricity payment by comparing forest dynamics under these policies to forest dynamics under a scenario in which no payment is provided. In 2007, there were 337 km² of forests in the study area of 515 km². Under the baseline projection in which no payment is provided, the forest area is expected to be 234 km² in 2030. Under the current NFCP, there are likely to be 379 km² of forests in 2030, or an increase of 145 km² of forests to the baseline projection. If the cash payment is replaced with an electricity payment, there are likely to be 435 km² of forests in 2030, or an increase of 201 km² of forests to the baseline projection. However, the effectiveness of the NFCP may be threatened by the behavior of newly formed households if they are not included in the payment scheme. In addition, the effects of socio-demographic factors on forests will also differ under different policy scenarios. Human and natural interactions under policies (HANIP) and its modeling framework may also be used to assess the effectiveness of many other PES programs around the world.

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Assessing the Effectiveness of Payments for Ecosystem Services: an Agent-Based Modeling Approach

Chen¹,

Viña²,

Shortridge³

et al. 2014

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“…This money is used to compensate for the pecuniary losses of individuals who must abandon certain economic activities and/or change their production processes to protect the environment (Sierra and Russman, 2006;Pagiola, 2008;Wunder et al, 2008;Wünscher et al, 2008;Van Hecken et al, 2012).…”

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A Bayesian quantile binary regression approach to estimate payments for environmental services

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ABSTRACT. Stated preference approaches, such as contingent valuation, focus mainly on the estimation of the mean or median willingness to pay (WTP) for an environmental good. Nevertheless, these two welfare measures may not be appropriate when there are social and political concerns associated with implementing a payment for environmental services (PES) scheme. In this paper the authors used a Bayesian estimation approach to estimate a quantile binary regression and the WTP distribution in the context of a contingent valuation PES application. Our results show that the use of other quantiles framed in the supermajority concept provides a reasonable interpretation of the technical nonmarket valuation studies in the PES area. We found that the values of the mean WTP are 10-37 times higher than the value that would support a supermajority of 70 per cent of the population.

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“…Nesse sentido, as avaliações das iniciativas de PSA deverão identificar os serviços que estão sendo efetivamente gerados (PAGIOLA et al, 2004;PAGIOLA, 2008) e que não seriam gerados na ausência dos pagamentos (WUNDER, 2007). Há diversos questionamentos e críticas acerca da efetividade do PSA em atender os objetivos propostos, com relação à provisão dos serviços (SIERRA; RUSSMAN, 2006;WUNDER, 2007;MURADIAN et al, 2010), sendo a maioria relacionada à falta de avaliação dos impactos reais desses esquemas.…”

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“…Existem na literatura trabalhos que avaliaram iniciativas de PSA e usaram, principalmente, a conservação florestal (desmatamento evitado) como indicador (SIERRA; RUSSMAN, 2006;SÁNCHEZ-AZOFEIFA et al, 2007;SÁNCHEZ-AZOFEIFA, 2008;HONEY-ROSES;BAYLIS;RAMÍREZ, 2011;ARRIAGADA et al, 2012;SHAPIRO;SIMS, 2012;PFAFF, 2013;CLEMENTS;MILNER-GULLAND, 2015). Porém, poucos estudos conseguem atribuir com propriedade os resultados encontrados aos pagamentos realizados.…”

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Avaliação da influência dos pagamentos por serviços ambientais sobre a estrutura da paisagem

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On the efficiency of environmental service payments: A forest conservation assessment in the Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica

Cited by 200 publications

References 21 publications

Assessing the Effectiveness of Payments for Ecosystem Services: an Agent-Based Modeling Approach

Assessing the Effectiveness of Payments for Ecosystem Services: an Agent-Based Modeling Approach

A Bayesian quantile binary regression approach to estimate payments for environmental services

Avaliação da influência dos pagamentos por serviços ambientais sobre a estrutura da paisagem

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