Payment for ecosystem services: could it be sustainable financing mechanism for watershed services in Nepal?

Aryal, Kishor; Bhatta, Laxmi Dutt; Thapa, Prakash Singh; Ranabhat, Sunita; Neupane, Nilhari; Joshi, Jagannath; Shrestha, Kanchan; Shrestha, A. B.

doi:10.3934/gf.2019.3.221

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“…This finding reinforces on the need of identification and analysis of landscape-specific interaction among ES, and exploration of the optimal sitespecific management prescription considering both biophysical constraints and utility functions of ES. Nonetheless, incentive and compensation for ecosystem management (i.e., payment for ecosystem services) have also been successful in some regions because of the sound institutional arrangement (Aryal et al, 2019;Grima et al, 2016), while others advocate for empowerment and capacity building of the ecosystem beneficiaries (Davis and Goldman, 2019;Tampubolon, 2020). The findings will support in program articulation of UN Sustainable Development Goals, institutionalization of UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, and implementation of the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework.…”

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confidence: 83%

How much do we know about trade-offs in ecosystem services? A systematic review of empirical research observations

Aryal

Maraseni

Apan

2022

Science of The Total Environment

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How much do we know about trade-offs in ecosystem services? A systematic review of empirical research observations

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Apan

2022

Science of The Total Environment

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“…China sacrificed the environment and consumed resources excessively to achieve rapid economic growth in the early stage of development [1]. During the process of industrialization, a large amount of wastewater flowed into rivers, causing ecological pollution [2,3]. Similarly, urbanization, deforestation and occupation of cultivated land caused a large amount of soil erosion [4], hurting China's water ecosystem.…”

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Watershed Horizontal Ecological Compensation Policy and Green Ecological City Development: Spatial and Mechanism Assessment

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Baskaran

Zhang

2023

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Green ecological development has become an inevitable choice to achieve sustainable urban development and carbon neutrality. This paper evaluates the level of green ecological city development in the Xin’an watershed as measured by green total factor productivity (GTFP), analyzes the direct and spatial effects of the Watershed Horizontal Ecological Compensation policy on GTFP, and further examines the moderating effect of the Research and Development (R&D) incentives, industrial structure, and income gap. This paper conducts difference-in-differences (DID) and spatial regression analysis on 27 cities from 2007 to 2019. The results show that GTFP progresses to varying degrees across cities over time, especially in the pilot cities. Crucially, the Watershed Horizontal Ecological Compensation policy significantly improved GTFP, although the effect was slight. Interestingly, the increase in GTFP in pilot cities that implemented the policy spatially suppressed the increase in GTFP in cities that did not implement the policy. Our evidence also shows that the positive effect of the policy is higher in regions with higher R&D incentives and industrial structure upgrading, which indicates that R&D incentives and industrial upgrading are crucial. In comparison, the income gap has not made the expected negative adjustment effect under the Chinese government’s poverty alleviation policy. However, the positive policy effect is heterogeneous in the downstream and upstream pilot cities. The “forcing effect” of the policy on the downstream cities is more favorable than the “compensating effect” on the upstream cities. Therefore, policymakers should pay more attention to ensuring the effectiveness of the Watershed Horizontal Ecological Compensation policy in enhancing GTFP as a long-term strategy to guarantee the sustainability of green ecological development in Chinese cities.

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“…Community-based Forestry provides many ES from local to global benefits from forest restoration (Paudyal et al 2017). Likewise, the concept of paying for ecosystem services is becoming more prevalent in watershed management to ensure sustainable water sources available to communities and the ecosystem (Aryal et al 2019). Forests and people have been coexisting together and helping to shape our environment (Miah, Mohiuddin and Chakrabarty 2022).…”

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Understanding the payment for ecosystem services and associated challenges: Global practices and recommendation for Nepal

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Payment for ecosystem services: could it be sustainable financing mechanism for watershed services in Nepal?

Cited by 17 publications

References 29 publications

How much do we know about trade-offs in ecosystem services? A systematic review of empirical research observations

How much do we know about trade-offs in ecosystem services? A systematic review of empirical research observations

Watershed Horizontal Ecological Compensation Policy and Green Ecological City Development: Spatial and Mechanism Assessment

Understanding the payment for ecosystem services and associated challenges: Global practices and recommendation for Nepal

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