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Modeling Social-Ecological Feedback Effects in the Implementation of Payments for Environmental
Services in Pasture-Woodlands
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Huber, Robert; Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL; [email protected]; Briner,
Simon; ETH Zurich, Agri-food and Agri-environmental Economics Group, Department of Environmental Systems Science;
[email protected]; Lauber, Stefan; Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL; [email protected];
Seidl, Roman; ETH Zurich, Natural and Social Science Interface, Department of Environmental Systems Science;
[email protected]; Widmer, Alexander; ETH Zurich, Environmental Policy and Economics, Department of Environmental
Systems Science; [email protected]; Le, Quang Bao; ETH Zurich, Natural and Social Science Interface, Department of
Environmental Systems Science; [email protected]; Hirschi, Christian; ETH Zurich, Environmental Policy and Economics,
Department of Environmental Systems Science; [email protected].
An effective implementation of payment for environmental services (PES) must allow for complex interactions of coupled
social-ecological systems. We present an integrative study of the pasture-woodland landscape of the Swiss Jura Mountains
combining methods from natural and social sciences to explore feedback between vegetation dynamics on paddock level,
farm-based decision making, and policy decisions on the national political level. Our modeling results show that concomitant
climatic and socioeconomic changes advance the loss of open grassland in silvopastoral landscapes. This would, in the longer
term, deteriorate the historical wooded pastures in the region, which fulfill important functions for biodiversity and are widely
considered as landscapes that...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Agent-based modeling; Dynamic modeling; Feedback; Human-environment systems; Integrated study;
Payments for environmental services; Policy network analysis.
Ano: 2013
Payments for Ecosystem Services in the Context of Adaptation to Climate Change
Provedor de dados: 7
The concept of payments for ecosystem services (PES) has recently emerged as a promising tool for enhancing or safeguarding
the provision of ecosystem services (ES). Although the concept has been extensively scrutinized in terms of its potential positive
and negative impacts on the poor in developing countries, less attention has been paid to examining the role of PES in the context
of adaptation to climate change. PES has some potential to contribute to adaptation to climate change, but there are also risks that
it could undermine adaptation efforts. In order to maximize synergies and minimize trade-offs between PES and adaptation, it is
important that the conceptual links between both are made explicit. The present article presents the main conceptual...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Synthesis
Palavras-chave: Adaptation; Adaptive capacity; Climate change; Ecosystem services; Payments for ecosystem services;
Payments for environmental services; Vulnerability.
Ano: 2012
Enrichment Planting in Secondary Forests: a Promising Clean Development Mechanism to Increase
Terrestrial Carbon Sinks
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Hawryshyn, Jessica; Department of Biology and McGill School of Environment, McGill University;
[email protected]; Senikas, Alexandra Vyta; Department of Biology and McGill School of Environment, McGill
University; [email protected]; Potvin, Catherine; Department of Biology and McGill School of Environment,
McGill University; Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; [email protected].
With the increasing need to reduce greenhouse gas concentrations, afforestation and reforestation (A/R) projects are being
implemented under the Kyoto Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and under the voluntary carbon (C) market. The specific
objective of A/R C projects is to enhance terrestrial sinks. They could also provide low-income communities in developing
countries with a source of revenue, as well as a number of ecological and social services. However, feasibility issues have
hindered implementation of A/R CDMs. We propose enrichment planting (EP) in old fallow using high-value native timber
species as a land-use alternative and a small-scale C projects opportunity. We present EP in the context of ongoing work in a poor
indigenous community in...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Insight
Palavras-chave: Biodiversity; Carbon sequestration; Clean development mechanism; Enrichment planting; Indigenous
communities; Payments for environmental services; Secondary forests.
Ano: 2009
Are Direct Payments for Environmental Services Spelling Doom for Sustainable Forest Management
in the Tropics?
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Wunder, Sven; Center for International Forestry Research; [email protected].
Over the past several decades, significant donor funding has been directed to sustainable forest management in the tropics, in the
hope of combining forest conservation with economic gains through sustainable use. To date, this approach has produced only
modest results in terms of changed silvicultural and land-use practices in this area. Direct payments for environmental services
(PES) have been suggested as a promising alternative but still remain widely untested in the tropics. This paper first provides a
conceptual assessment of PES, comparing the main features of this practice with those of other conservation instruments. Second,
the paper discusses a series of critical questions that have been raised about both the environmental and livelihood...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Forest management; Payments for environmental services; Rural livelihoods; Conservation; Economic
incentives.
Ano: 2006
The Conditions for Functional Mechanisms of Compensation and Reward for Environmental Services
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Swallow, Brent M.; University of Alberta; [email protected]; Leimona, Beria; World Agroforestry Centre;
[email protected]; Yatich, Thomas; World Agroforestry Centre; [email protected]; Velarde, Sandra J.; World Agroforestry
Centre; [email protected].
Mechanisms of compensation and reward for environmental services (CRES) are becoming increasingly contemplated as means
for managing human–environment interactions. Most of the functional mechanisms in the tropics have been
developed within the last 15 years; many developing countries still have had little experience with functional mechanisms. We
consider the conditions that foster the origin and implementation of functional mechanisms. Deductive and inductive approaches
are combined. Eight hypotheses are derived from theories of institution and policy change. Five case studies, from Latin America,
Africa, and Asia, are then reviewed according to a common framework. The results suggest the following to be important
conditions for functional CRES...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Carbon sequestration; Ecosystem services; Ecotourism; Environmental services; Institutional change; Payments
for environmental services; Watershed services.
Ano: 2010
When Donors Get Cold Feet: the Community Conservation Concession in Setulang (Kalimantan,
Indonesia) that Never Happened
Provedor de dados: 7
Autores: Wunder, Sven; Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR); [email protected]; Campbell, Bruce; Forests
and Livelihoods Programme, CIFOR; School for Environmental Research, Charles Darwin University; [email protected];
Frost, Peter GH; Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR); [email protected]; Sayer, Jeffrey A; IUCN Landscapes and
Livelihoods Initiative; [email protected]; Iwan, Ramses; Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR);
[email protected]; Wollenberg, Lini; The University of Vermont; [email protected].
There is consensus that payments for biodiversity services are a promising conservation tool, yet the implementation of applied
schemes has been lagging behind. This paper explores some reasons why potential biodiversity buyers may hesitate. It describes
the case of an unsuccessful attempt to establish a community conservation concession in the village of Setulang (East Kalimantan,
Indonesia) to safeguard a biologically valuable area from predatory logging. Potential biodiversity donors did not engage in this
payments-for-environmental-services scheme mainly because of their limited time horizon and uneasiness about the conditionality
principle. Other complicating factors included overlapping land claims, and the diagnosis of the externality at hand. We...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Conservation; Kalimantan; Logging; Payments for environmental services.
Ano: 2008
Conservation Payments, Liquidity Constraints and Off-Farm Labor: Impact of the Grain for Green
Program on Rural Households in China
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Uchida,
Emi; Rozelle,
Scott; Xu,
Jintao.
This study evaluates the off-farm labor response of rural households participating in the Grain for Green program in China, the
largest conservation set-aside program in the developing world. Using a panel data set that we designed and implemented, we
examine the impact of the program on changes in off-farm labor participation between 1999 (pre-program) and 2004
(post-program) using a difference-in-differences approach and several extensions that account for program intensity. We also test
whether the program impact is diverse depending on level of physical and human capital of participants. We find that on average
the Grain for Green program has a positive effect on off-farm labor participation. Importantly, however, we find that program
effects vary...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Payments for environmental services; Off-farm labor supply; Grain for Green program; China; Program
evaluation; Environmental Economics and Policy; Farm Management; J22; O13; Q23.
Ano: 2007
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/9698
Payments for environmental services : incentives through carbon sequestration compensation for
cocoa-based agroforestry systems in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Seeberg-Elverfeldt,
Christina; Schwarze,
Stefan; Zeller,
Manfred.
Up to 25 percent of all anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions are caused by deforestation, and Indonesia is the third largest
greenhouse gas emitter worldwide due to land use change and deforestation. On the island of Sulawesi in the vicinity of the Lore
Lindu National Park (LLNP), many smallholders contribute to conversion processes at the forest margin as a result of their
agricultural practices. Specifically the area dedicated to cocoa plantations has increased from zero (1979) to nearly 18,000
hectares (2001). Some of these plots have been established inside the 220,000 hectares of the LLNP. An intensification process is
observed with a consequent reduction of the shade tree density. This study assesses which impact carbon sequestration payments
for...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Payments for environmental services; Carbon sequestration; Agroforestry systems; Cocoa; Linear programming;
Economic incentives; Poverty; Environmental Economics and Policy; Land Economics/Use.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/92827
Forest Conservation and Slippage: Evidence from Mexico's National Payments for Ecosystem
Services Program
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Alix-Garcia,
Jennifer Marie; Shapiro,
Elizabeth N.; Sims,
Katharine R.E.
Incentive-based programs to reduce deforestation are expected to play an increasingly important role in global efforts to protect
ecosystems and sequester carbon but their environmental effectiveness is not clear. We investigate program effectiveness and
slippage in the context of Mexico's national payments for hydrological services program, which pays private and communal
landowners to maintain forest cover on enrolled lands. To measure program impacts, we use matched controls drawn from the
program applicant pool to establish counterfactual deforestation rates in the absence of payments. We find statistically significant
but small to moderate avoided deforestation impacts. To examine slippage of deforestation to nonenrolled lands, we develop a
model of...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Payments for environmental services; Payments for ecosystem services; Program evaluation; Slippage; Leakage;
Incentive-based mechanisms; Mexico; Land use; Deforestation; Environmental Economics and Policy; Q12; Q24; Q57; R14;
O13.
Ano: 2010
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/93045