Participation in payments for ecosystem services programs in the Global South: A systematic review

Jones, Kelly W.; Powlen, Kathryn; Roberts, Ryan M.; Shinbrot, Xoco A.

doi:10.1016/j.ecoser.2020.101159

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“…Similarly, the predominantly extrinsic valuation of nature under modernity is also strongly mirrored in WSK and found in the form of narrative discourses about natural capital or payment for ecosystem services (Kosoy and Corbera, 2010;Jones et al, 2020;Kaiser et al, 2021). By relating nature with concepts drawn from economics, these valuations favor the accelerated development of market-based strategies to promote biodiversity conservation or to ensure protection and maintenance of certain ecosystem services.…”

Section: Dominant Narratives In Marine Sciencementioning

confidence: 98%

Through the Eyes of Another: Using a Narrative Lens to Navigate Complex Social-Ecological Systems and to Embrace Multiple Ways of Knowing

Relva

Jung²

2021

Front. Mar. Sci.

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Many social-ecological issues are characterised by a multiplicity of stakeholder voices with often fundamentally divergent values, beliefs or worldviews. Those differences in perspective can be also viewed as different narratives on individual, community and cultural scales that both express and reinforce people’s identity, value system and manifested behaviours. Navigating between those narratives requires approaches that facilitate the co-existence of multiple ways of knowing. The currently dominant knowledge production system of Western scientific knowledge often fails to meet those challenges due to its positivist and reductionist tendencies. However, embracing a co-existence of knowledges isn’t just necessary from a pragmatic perspective to adequately engage in those situations, but also represents an ethical imperative that includes acknowledging the colonial and oppressive history of Western scientific knowledge toward other knowledges, especially regarding Indigenous knowledge production systems. We propose adopting a narrative lens as a metaphor for embracing multiple ways of knowing and being as narratives play a key role for human cognition, communication and in shaping and expressing fundamental values at different levels. Using an example of contested narratives from a fisheries management conflict, we illustrate how narratives can help to develop a richer understanding of social-ecological conflicts. We also reflect on some narrative discourses commonly used in marine science that stem from the binary nature-culture divide prominent in Western scientific knowledge and discuss their implication for hindering sustainable ocean governance. Furthermore, we demonstrate how storytelling methods can be used to surface and share those narratives and to unravel the underlying values and fundamental beliefs and to re-shape them. The narrative lens we propose is suitable under multiple simultaneous disciplinary homes including Indigenous methodologies and systems thinking. They share the key features of having a holistic and relational approach that recognises the co-existence of multiple ways of knowing and being and use self-reflection as key for critical engagement with the situation and to surface and acknowledge one’s own internal narratives. This represents no exhaustive review of narrative inquiry, but a reflective journey illustrating how engaging with narratives can facilitate knowledge co-existence including different ways of relating to human and non-human beings.

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Section: Dominant Narratives In Marine Sciencementioning

confidence: 98%

Through the Eyes of Another: Using a Narrative Lens to Navigate Complex Social-Ecological Systems and to Embrace Multiple Ways of Knowing

Relva

Jung²

2021

Front. Mar. Sci.

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“…Mexico's 20-year experience with federal and local PHS schemes has been recognized as a model in Latin America of successful PHS implementation [65] and has received great attention from biophysical and social science scholars [8,9,11,[66][67][68][69]. According to Pfaff et al (2019), by 2016 the vast majority of the 157 market-based schemes for conservation in Mexico were PHS programs.…”

Section: Local Matching Funds Payment For Hydrological Services Programs In Central Veracruz Mexicomentioning

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Uncovering Stakeholder Participation in Payment for Hydrological Services (PHS) Program Decision Making in Mexico and Colombia

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Payment for ecosystem services (PES) is a market-based policy approach intended to foster land use practices, such as forest conservation or restoration, that protect and improve the benefits from healthy, functioning ecosystems. While PES programs are used globally, they are an especially prominent environmental policy tool in Latin America, where the vast majority are payment for hydrological services (PHS) programs, which incentivize the conservation and restoration of ecosystems associated with water production and clean water for clearly defined water users. As a market mechanism, PHS approaches involve a transactional relationship between upstream and downstream water users who are connected by a shared watershed. While existing literature has highlighted the important role of non-state actors in natural resource management and program effectiveness, few studies have explored the role of stakeholder participation in the context of PHS programs. Building on the collaborative learning approach and the Trinity of Voice framework, we sought to understand how and to what extent PHS program stakeholders are engaged in PHS design, implementation, and evaluation. In this paper we explored (1) the modes of stakeholder engagement in PHS programs that program administrators use, and (2) the degree to which different modes of stakeholder participation allow PHS stakeholders to have decision power with which to influence PHS policy design and expected outcomes. To better understand the role of stakeholder participation, and the different ways participation occurs, we used a comparative multiple-case study analysis of three PHS program administration types (government, non-profit, and a mixed public–private organization) in Mexico and Colombia that have incorporated stakeholder engagement to achieve ecological and social goals. Our analysis draws on institutional interviews to investigate the modes of stakeholder engagement and understand the degree of decision space that is shared with other PHS stakeholders. Across all cases, we found that the trust between key actors and institutions is an essential but underappreciated aspect of successful collaboration within PHS initiatives. We conclude with recommendations for ways in which program administrators and governmental agencies can better understand and facilitate the development of trust in PHS design and implementation, and natural resources management more broadly.

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“…The SLF defines capital assets as human, financial, physical, natural, and social capital (DfID, 1999). Different levels of access to these assets are likely to influence whether a household or community participates in conservation programs (Jones et al, 2020) and the types of impacts a conservation program has on the household (Hayes & Murtinho, 2018). We measured human capital with questions related to gender, age, education, household size and composition, and length of residence in the kebele.…”

Section: Survey Instrumentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social Equity Outcomes in Ethiopia

Abebe¹,

Jones²

2021

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Community-based conservation (CBC), albeit lauded as a more just alternative than command-and-control conservation approaches, is riddled by equity concerns. This study measures perceptions of equity and examines how household, institutional, and program design characteristics affect multiple dimensions of equity in a CBC program in the Bale Mountains, Ethiopia. Informed by a prior in-depth qualitative study, we develop locally relevant indicators about perceptions of distributive, procedural, and recognition equity. We conduct 200 household surveys in four kebeles (smallest administrative unit), two from a ‘new CBC model’ that involves community-based power sharing and two kebeles from the ‘original CBC model’ that does not involve community-based power sharing. We find slightly negative perceptions of all three dimensions of equity across the four kebeles. Gender and wealth are strong determinants of perceptions of distributive equity, with women and poorer households having more negative perceptions. Social capital, both internal community cohesion (bonding social capital) and strong relationships with external organizations (linking social capital), positively affect all three dimensions of equity but have the largest impact on procedural and recognition equity. Finally, we find that communities in the ‘new CBC model’ have higher perceived equity than communities involved in the ‘original CBC model’. These findings highlight the need to strengthen weak ties with external organizations, facilitate intra-community cohesion, and design programs that emphasize power-sharing to facilitate more equitable conservation outcomes. Our results also suggest that more attention is still needed in incorporating marginalized groups into CBC programs.

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Participation in payments for ecosystem services programs in the Global South: A systematic review

Cited by 55 publications

References 75 publications

Through the Eyes of Another: Using a Narrative Lens to Navigate Complex Social-Ecological Systems and to Embrace Multiple Ways of Knowing

Through the Eyes of Another: Using a Narrative Lens to Navigate Complex Social-Ecological Systems and to Embrace Multiple Ways of Knowing

Uncovering Stakeholder Participation in Payment for Hydrological Services (PHS) Program Decision Making in Mexico and Colombia

Social Equity Outcomes in Ethiopia

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