scholarly journals Payments for ecosystem services and poverty reduction: concepts, issues, and empirical perspectives

2008 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 245-254 ◽  
Author(s):  
ERWIN H. BULTE ◽  
LESLIE LIPPER ◽  
RANDY STRINGER ◽  
DAVID ZILBERMAN
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Policy Innovation ◽  
Payments For Ecosystem Services ◽  
Environmental Services ◽  
Market Forces ◽  
Payments For Environmental Services ◽  
Environmental Objectives ◽  
Recent Policy ◽  
International Aid Agencies

Paying for the provision of environmental services is a recent policy innovation attracting much attention in both developed and developing countries. This innovation, referred to as ‘payments for ecosystem services’ (when the emphasis is on enhancing ‘nature’ services) or ‘payments for environmental services’ (when amenities provided by the built environment are also included) is referred to here as PES. PES programs aim to harness market forces to obtain more efficient environmental outcomes. Since so many opportunities for PES programs could involve farmers in poor regions, international aid agencies and private donors, looking for a double dividend, increasingly consider using PES programs as a potential way of meeting both social and environmental objectives.

scholarly journals Forests and poverty: how has our understanding of the relationship been changed by experience?

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-43
Author(s):  
G. Shepherd ◽  
K. Warner ◽  
N. Hogarth
Keyword(s):  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Forest Governance ◽  
Environmental Services ◽  
Forest Sector ◽  
Payments For Environmental Services ◽  
Address Climate Change ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Change Mitigation

Understanding of the relationship between forests and the poor has grown enormously, especially in the last twenty years. Aid donors worked on poverty reduction in the forest sector in the 1990s and into the early 2000s, but thereafter broadened their attention to address climate change mitigation, better forest governance and timber legality, and payments for environmental services. There has so far been an incomplete integration of new insights into the nature of poor people's reliance on forests, of their own efforts to use that reliance to escape from poverty, and of current forestry aid concerns. Future projects need to choose interventions which make better use of the results now available about forestpoverty relationships, both for the better conservation of forests, and for better focus on the livelihoods of the forest-reliant poor as they continue to try to move out of poverty.

scholarly journals Tackling fragmentation of climat Tackling fragmentation of climate and biodiversity regimes complexes: the role ecosystem services and payment for environmental services : the role ecosystem services and payment for environmental services

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hrabanski Marie ◽  
Le Coq Jean-François
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Global Governance ◽  
Driving Forces ◽  
Policy Instruments ◽  
Environmental Services ◽  
Payments For Environmental Services ◽  
Payment For Environmental Services ◽  
Mitigation And Adaptation ◽  
Bridging Concept ◽  
History Of

In the realm of global governance, fragmentation is a recognized and recurrent feature and the multiple causalities underlying global governance issues along with their often cross-sectoral and cross-scale dynamics constitute major driving forces for fragmented governance. The article aims to identify the interactions between the elements of two regime complexes: climate and biodiversity. We argue that despite the different structuration and history of climate and biodiversity regime complexes, the notion of Ecosystem services, in developing specific policy instruments such as payments for environmental services, contributes to the synergy of these two complexes regimes. Indeed, ES concept has been an “integrative” and “bridging” concept that facilitated the creation of linkages between climate and biodiversity regimes complexes. First, the diffusion of the ecosystem services concept has been possible though bringing organizations involved in both regimes complexes. Second, the market based instruments for ecosystem services and biodiversity, especially payment for environmental services has been the operational setting that enables to create at national and/or local scales the operational synergies between both issues and regimes. Payment for environmental services can achieve jointly biodiversity conservation and some mitigation and adaptation objective

Assessing the potential for synergies in the implementation of payments for environmental services programmes: an empirical analysis of Costa Rica

2011 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 406-416 ◽  
Author(s):  
WEI ZHANG ◽  
STEFANO PAGIOLA
Keyword(s):  
Social Development ◽  
Biodiversity Conservation ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Environmental Services ◽  
Payments For Environmental Services ◽  
Watershed Conservation ◽  
Conservation Funding ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Payment Rate

SUMMARYPayments for environmental services (PES) have been recognized as a promising mechanism for conservation, with the potential to contribute to social objectives such as poverty reduction. This paper outlines a simple framework for assessing the potential for synergies in the implementation of PES programmes, used to analyse the new watershed conservation funding (WCF) channelled through Costa Rica's national PES programme, Pago por Servicios Ambientales (PSA). The WCF financing can only be used in a limited number of watersheds. Given this constraint, the paper examines the mechanisms by which the WCF may potentially contribute to biodiversity conservation and to reducing social development gaps. Although there is significant spatial correlation among the priority areas targeted for the objectives of watershed conservation, biodiversity conservation and social development, the availability of the WCF per unit of land in most watersheds is limited compared to the PSA programme's prevailing payment rate of US$ 64 ha−1, potentially hindering the impact of the WCF on conservation and social development. The analysis helps guide the allocation of the PSA budget in a way that complements the WCF and improves the cost-effectiveness of the PSA budget.

scholarly journals Sistemi di Pagamento per i Servizi Ecosistemici (PES): analisi della letteratura nazionale e internazionale

2020 ◽  
pp. 281-314
Author(s):  
Alessandro Paletto ◽  
Isabella De Meo ◽  
Stefano Morelli
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Natural Capital ◽  
The United States ◽  
Scientific Production ◽  
Payments For Ecosystem Services ◽  
Environmental Services ◽  
Steady Increase ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Natural Ecosystems ◽  
Number Of Publications

The payments for ecosystem services are innovative instruments based on the creation of market for goods and services provided by natural ecosystems to stimulate the offer of positive externalities. The aim of the present study was to analyze the scientific production on payments for ecosystem services - focusing on the forest sector - both at national and international level in the period 2005-2019. To that end, a literature review is conducted through three steps: (1) identification of publications in English on payments for ecosystem/environmental services using Scopus database; (2) identification of publications in Italian on payments for ecosystem/environmental services using Google Scholar and the databases of the main Italian forestry journals; (3) bibliometric analysis of the publications collected using a bibliometric network analysis and a textual analysis. The results of this study show a steady increase in the number of publications per year from 2005 to today, corresponding to an average number of 81.8 publications per year using the term “payments for ecosystem services” and 46.3 per year using the term “payments for environmental services”. Approximately 40% of total scientific production about this topic focuses on forests. The country with highest number of publications is the United States, while the member countries of the European Union have contributed to 25% of total scientific production. In addition, the results show a rich scientific production in Italian (47 publications corresponding to 3,1 publications per year), but the majority of these publications refers to these innovative market-based instruments to protect natural capital and ecosystem services without providing detailed information from the theoretical and practical point of view. In this context, it would be useful to increase the technical-scientific production in Italian (protocols, manuals, guidelines) with the aim of supporting forest managers in disseminating these market-based instruments in Italy

When could payments for environmental services benefit the poor?

2008 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 255-278 ◽  
Author(s):  
DAVID ZILBERMAN ◽  
LESLIE LIPPER ◽  
NANCY MCCARTHY
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Labor Demand ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Environmental Services ◽  
Diversion Programs ◽  
Land Quality ◽  
Payment For Environmental Services ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Environmental Objectives

ABSTRACTSince modification of agricultural production choices in developing countries often provides positive environmental externalities to people in developed countries, payment for environmental services (PES) has become an important topic in the context of economic development and poverty reduction. We consider two broad categories of PES programs, land-diversion programs, where lands are diverted from agriculture to other uses, and working-land programs, where agricultural production activities are modified to achieve environmental objectives. PES programs are generally good for landowners. The distribution of land and land quality is critical in determining poverty impacts. Where ES and agricultural productivity are negatively correlated and the poor own lands of low agricultural quality, they stand to gain from PES programs. Consumers and wage laborers may lose where food supply is inelastic and programs reduce labor demand. Working-land programs may have better distributional effects than diversion programs.

Ecosystem services from tropical savannas: economic opportunities through payments for environmental services

2009 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Romy Greiner ◽  
Iain Gordon ◽  
Chris Cocklin
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Primary Production ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
Natural Capital ◽  
Service Industries ◽  
Environmental Services ◽  
Payments For Environmental Services ◽  
Northern Australia ◽  
Tropical Savannas ◽  
Conceptual Clarity

Economic activity in the tropical savannas of northern Australia, like rangeland regions across the globe, has traditionally been based on primary production – predominantly cattle grazing and mining. More recently, northern Australia has experienced an increase in the extent of the conservation estate and in tourism and associated service industries. These trends demonstrate an increasing recognition of the multifunctional character of the tropical savannas and business opportunities additional to the traditional primary production systems. The increasing recognition of the multifunctionality of landscapes and increasing demand for ecosystem services provides potential opportunities for economic returns for businesses and communities in the tropical savannas through the delivery of environmental services to sustain the region’s natural capital. This paper pursues two objectives. Firstly, it sets out to provide conceptual clarity around the notions of ecosystem services, environmental services and payments for environmental services (PES). Secondly, we sketch some of the opportunities associated with PES, with particular reference to the Gulf of Carpentaria in northern Australia.

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