The Economic Value of Environmental Services on Indigenous-Held Lands in Australia

Zander, Kerstin K.; Garnett, Stephen T.

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“…This paper focused on farmer's WTA to implement PES practices and determinant factors influencing WTA as similarly applied in related study by Howard and Roe (2013). WTP approach has been widely used to value ecosystem services which can be provided by indigenous people in agro-ecosystems (Zander and Garnett 2011). Consequently, Willingness to pay has been applied mainly for situations where local communities pay for external services to sustain provision of ecosystem services.…”

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Estimating farmers’ stated willingness to accept pay for ecosystem services: case of Lake Naivasha watershed Payment for Ecosystem Services scheme-Kenya

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Introduction: Lake Naivasha watershed is recognized for its contribution to Kenya's national gross domestic product from the export of horticultural products. Commercial horticultural investment downstream depends mainly on the Lake's water. The fresh water lake lacks surface outflow, and its recharge depends on river Malewa flowing from upper catchment in Aberdare ranges. However, unsustainable land use practices in the upper catchment has led to increasing sediment loading and pollution in river Malewa which affects water quality in the Lake downstream. Payment for Environmental Services (PES) scheme has been initiated as an alternative incentive approach to motivate upstream smallholder farmers adopt sustainable land use practices for conservation of watershed services. This paper analyzes willingness to accept pay (WTA) as proxy economic measure of environmental service (ES) value and determines socio-economic factors influencing farmers WTA for watershed conservation. We analyzed the WTA and characterized WTA underlying socio-economic determinants in two PES intervention sites in Kenya. Methods: The objective of this study was to estimate WTA and determine socio-economic factors influencing WTA. Semi-structured questionnaire was used to collect data from 200 PES farmers through face-to-face interview. We applied contingent valuation (CV) and logistic regression for data analyses to elicit farmer's WTA estimates to implement PES farm practices and determine socio-economic factors influencing WTA, respectively.

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Estimating farmers’ stated willingness to accept pay for ecosystem services: case of Lake Naivasha watershed Payment for Ecosystem Services scheme-Kenya

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“…Participatory approaches are largely applied to one or few ES (e.g., Hein et al 2006, Jenkins et al 2010, or for a combined-service scenario (e.g., Zander andGarnett 2011, Kaffashi et al 2012), and therefore do not provide a stakeholder comparison across the full suite of ES of relevance. This provides little opportunity for stakeholders to contribute to often complex policy or management decisions beyond an individual monetary bid or preference for a limited question (Chee 2004).…”

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Effects of methodology and stakeholder disaggregation on ecosystem service valuation

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ABSTRACT. Contingent valuation is one of the most commonly used methodologies utilized in ecosystem service valuation, thereby including a participatory approach to many such assessments. However, inclusion of nonmonetary stakeholder priorities is still uncommon in ecosystem service valuations and disaggregation of stakeholders is all but absent from practice. We look at four site-scale wetland ecosystem service valuations from Asia that used nonmonetary participatory stated preference techniques from a range of stakeholders, and compare these prioritizations to those obtained from the largest monetary assessments available globally, the Ecosystem Service Value Database (ESVD). Stakeholder assessment suggests very different priorities to those from monetary assessments, yet priorities between different sites remained broadly consistent. Disaggregation of beneficiaries in one site showed marked differences in values between stakeholders. Monetary values correlate positively with values held by government officers and business owners, but negatively with fishermen and women who are relying most directly on the wetland ecosystem services. Our findings emphasize that ecosystem service assessment, monetary or otherwise, must capture the diversity of values present across stakeholder groups to incorporate site scale management issues, particularly in relation to poverty alleviation.

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“…Although Australian state, territory, and federal governments invest to a degree in culture-aligned economies, most notably the Indigenous land management initiatives (Zander & Garnett, 2011) and the regional Indigenous art centres (ACG, 2013), the level of investment is grossly inadequate given the magnitude of the demand for jobs in remote Australia (Forrest, 2014). To substantially grow and expand these employment sectors would require concerted investment by both governments and the commercial sector.…”

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Improving Business Investment Confidence in Culture-Aligned Indigenous Economies in Remote Australian Communities: A Business Support Framework to Better Inform Government Programs

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2015

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There is significant evidence that culture-aligned economies are more effective in engaging remote-living Indigenous Australians in work long-term. Despite this evidence, governments remain resistant to investing substantially in these economies, with the result that low employment rates persist. This article argues that governmental systems of organisation are not designed to support non-mainstream economies and this position is unlikely to change. Similarly, the commercial sector lacks confidence that investing in culturealigned economies will generate financial returns. This article presents a localised, pragmatic approach to Indigenous business support that works within existing systems of government, business and culture. Most unsuccessful programs fail to recognise the full suite of critical factors for sustained market engagement by both business and Indigenous people. This article reports on work to bring all critical factors together into a business support framework to inform the design and implementation of an aquaculture development program in a remote Indigenous Australian community.

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The Economic Value of Environmental Services on Indigenous-Held Lands in Australia

Cited by 51 publications

References 33 publications

Estimating farmers’ stated willingness to accept pay for ecosystem services: case of Lake Naivasha watershed Payment for Ecosystem Services scheme-Kenya

Estimating farmers’ stated willingness to accept pay for ecosystem services: case of Lake Naivasha watershed Payment for Ecosystem Services scheme-Kenya

Effects of methodology and stakeholder disaggregation on ecosystem service valuation

Improving Business Investment Confidence in Culture-Aligned Indigenous Economies in Remote Australian Communities: A Business Support Framework to Better Inform Government Programs

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