Reconciling theory and practice: An alternative conceptual framework for understanding payments for environmental services

Muradian, Roldán; Corbera, Esteve; Pascual, Unai; Kosoy, Nicolás; May, Peter H.

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2009.11.006

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“…Many researchers and practitioners have highlighted concern that crowding-out may occur with PES (Farley & Costanza, 2010;Muradian et al, 2010;Sommerville et al, 2009;Vatn, 2010), thus decreasing the effectiveness of the incentive to induce greater supply of ES, but this remains an unresolved issue in PES design (Ferraro, Lawlor, Mullan, & Pattanayak, 2012;Subhrendu K. Pattanayak, Wunder, & Ferraro, 2010).…”

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“…Where market constraints exist, however, indirect interventions that reduce them may be preferred by both the agent and the principal (Groom & Palmer, 2010). In addition to economic constraints, current PES discourse references behavioral research exploring the efficacy of direct incentives, raising concern for the potential crowding-out of intrinsic motivation to provide ES (Farley & Costanza, 2010;Muradian et al, 2010;Sommerville et al, 2009;Vatn, 2010).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…There are various definitions of payments for ecosystem services (PES) (Muradian et al, 2010;Sommerville et al, 2009;Tacconi, 2012;Wunder, 2005), but all generally describe PES as positive and (at least somewhat) conditional incentives provided to induce a socially preferred environmental behavior. Over the past two decades, the use of PES to incentivize the provision of regulating and cultural ecosystem services (ES) has become increasingly popular around the world, including in developing regions.…”

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Credit-Based Payments for Ecosystem Services: Evidence from a Choice Experiment in Ecuador

Cranford

Mourato

2014

World Development

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Original citation:Cranford, Matthew and Mourato, Susana (2014). Credit-based payments for ecosystem services: evidence from a choice experiment in Ecuador. World Development. 64, pp. 503-520 ISSN 0305-750X DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2014 Reuse of this item is permitted through licensing under the Creative Commons: Covering Letter (WITH Author Details) ABSTRACTThe original conceptualization of payments for ecosystem services (PES) promoted direct payments to motivate the provision of environmental public goods, but market imperfections and behavioral considerations can mean that PES that reduce market constraints are preferred. The main issue with the latter is how to include conditionality. We propose credit-based PES (CB-PES) as an incentive that links an environmental condition with the reduction of a key market constraint. Through a choice experiment in Ecuador, CB-PES was found to be a promising form of PES, with multiple desirable qualities of an incentive as cited in the behavioral economics and PES literatures.

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Credit-Based Payments for Ecosystem Services: Evidence from a Choice Experiment in Ecuador

Cranford

Mourato

2014

World Development

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“…Recent studies have also proved useful for estimating the benefits and costs associated with resource use and land use change (Costanza et al 2014), and valuation studies have extended beyond aggregate valuation of ecosystem services to consider questions of value distribution (Bullock et al 2011;Muradian et al 2010). That is, there is recognition that ecosystem service studies also need to consider the distribution of ecosystem service value, and gains and losses in that value, across stakeholders in order to adequately ascertain the real value of ecological services and natural capital to dependent groups.…”

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Inequality and ecosystem services: The value and social distribution of Niger Delta wetland services

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The Niger Delta wetlands are of international importance for their biodiversity, and support a large human population. The value and distribution of wetland ecosystem service benefits and costs across the three main stakeholder sectors (local community, government and corporate) were investigated. Results show that the net monetary value of the wetlands is $11,000 per delta household of which $9,000 was generated as cash income supporting household activities such as education and healthcare. The total annual value of provisioning services to local people is approximately $25 billion, about three times the value of oil production in the region. However, local communities also bear about 75% of the environmental costs of oil extraction, equivalent to about 19% of the oil industry profit. Local people, who experience considerable economic hardship and lack alternative income sources, receive little compensation from the oil sector. These results highlight the importance of understanding not only the benefits provided by Niger Delta wetlands, but also the distribution of the environmental costs associated with their use. We conclude that ecosystem service valuation studies should give greater attention to the social distribution of identified values. Such distributional analyses, rarely available, provide insight into how sustainable natural resource management policy and practice could be better aligned to social justice concerns.

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“…Th ey merely add to the uncertain context within which many PES schemes operate, refl ecting the complexities of ecosystems and property rights along with other factors such as limited information and institutional weaknesses (Muradian et al 2010). As such they underline the need for PES proponents to create a discourse that enables both PES and their constituent economic valuation techniques to be presented as success stories (Büscher 2014).…”

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Valuing and Evaluating Marine Ecosystem Services: Putting the Right Price on Marine Environments?

Clifton¹,

Cullen-Unsworth²,

Unsworth³

2014

Environment and Society

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Ⅲ ABSTRACT: Th e fl ow of ecosystem services from coral reefs, seagrass meadows and mangrove forests sustains the livelihoods of billions of people worldwide. Faced with the global degradation of marine and coastal ecosystems, policy makers are increasingly focusing on ecosystem service valuation techniques to encourage conservation and sustainable use of marine resources. Here we provide a review and synthesis of the available information on economic valuation techniques as applied to tropical marine habitats. Our study demonstrates the high variability and lack of consistency in outcomes from these studies. We conclude that, if the concept of ecosystem goods and services is to make a positive contribution towards managing the impacts of humans on the environment, then economic valuation approaches must refl ect the inherent limitations of economic theory whilst emphasizing the complexity and heterogeneity of the natural environment and human decision making.

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Reconciling theory and practice: An alternative conceptual framework for understanding payments for environmental services

Cited by 917 publications

References 24 publications

Credit-Based Payments for Ecosystem Services: Evidence from a Choice Experiment in Ecuador

Credit-Based Payments for Ecosystem Services: Evidence from a Choice Experiment in Ecuador

Inequality and ecosystem services: The value and social distribution of Niger Delta wetland services

Valuing and Evaluating Marine Ecosystem Services: Putting the Right Price on Marine Environments?

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