scholarly journals Possibility of Harnessing Social Capital to Support the Development of Payment for Environmental Services in Small-Scale Forests: A Case of Jatigede Catchment Area

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 70-80
Author(s):  
N Parlinah ◽  
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B Nugroho ◽  
M B Saleh ◽  
Hendrayanto Hendrayanto
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Catchment Area ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Environmental Services ◽  
Payment For Environmental Services

Payments for environmental services and the poor: concepts and preliminary evidence

2008 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 279-297 ◽  
Author(s):  
SVEN WUNDER
Keyword(s):  
Service Providers ◽  
Good Reason ◽  
Preliminary Evidence ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Environmental Services ◽  
Service Users ◽  
Payment For Environmental Services ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Environmental Goals ◽  
Gain Access

ABSTRACTBased on observations from all three tropical continents, there is good reason to believe that poor service providers can broadly gain access to payment for environmental services (PES) schemes, and generally become better off from that participation, in both income and non-income terms. However, poverty effects need to be analysed in a conceptual framework looking not only at poor service providers, but also at poor service users and non-participants. Effects on service users are positive if environmental goals are achieved, while those on non-participants can be positive or negative. The various participation filters of a PES scheme contain both pro-poor and anti-poor selection biases. Quantitative welfare effects are bound to remain small-scale, compared to national poverty-alleviation goals. Some pro-poor interventions are possible, but increasing regulations excessively could curb PES efficiency and implementation scale, which could eventually harm the poor. Prime focus of PES should thus remain on the environment, not on poverty.

scholarly journals The Potential of Social Capital in the Implementation of Payment for Environmental Services in Tawang Retention Pond

2014 ◽  
pp. 41-52
Author(s):  
Edi Santosa
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Environmental Services ◽  
Local Networks ◽  
Payment For Environmental Services ◽  
Retention Pond ◽  
Self Help ◽  
The Impact

A high level of space and land utilization in the city of Semarang, Indonesia, has caused degradation of natural resources, both terrestrial and aquatic. In particular, the impact of flooding and high spring tides has worsened over time. Payment for Environmental Services (PES) is now being developed globally as a market-based instrument to attribute value to ecosystem, environmental and social services provided by natural resources, recognizing the value of social capital. Local networks and communities play important roles and have positive impacts on economic welfare and local development. The aim of this study is to analyse the potential of social capital as source of support in implementation of PES in Tawang Retention Pond. This research use mixed methods (both qualitative and quantitative approaches) to produce a more complete pictureby combining and comparing informationfrom different sources.The result shows that the characteristics of the community surrounding Tawang retention pond is included in a type of Bridging Social Capital which is characterized by a sense of spontaneous (reciprocity), mutual trust and social networks such as members of the SHGs (Self-Help Groups) who indulge in the activities of gathering, social funds that bridge the poor to join a self-help community groups. This qualitative result is strengthened by the results of correlation analysis where there is a significant correlation between social capital and PES with a coefficient of 59.5%. Thismeans social capital is potentially an important factor in the application of PES.

Compensating for livestock killed by lions: payment for environmental services as a policy arrangement

2015 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 363-372 ◽  
Author(s):  
NOWELLA ANYANGO-VAN ZWIETEN ◽  
RENÉ VAN DER DUIM ◽  
INGRID J. VISSEREN-HAMAKERS
Keyword(s):  
Side Effects ◽  
Considerable Reduction ◽  
Careful Examination ◽  
Environmental Services ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Payment For Environmental Services ◽  
African Lion ◽  
Monetary Compensation ◽  
Private Market ◽  
Biodiversity Governance

SUMMARYTo address human–wildlife conflicts and the related threat of extinction of the African lion, in 2003, the Maasailand Preservation Trust established a fund at the Mbirikani Group Ranch in southern Kenya to provide monetary compensation for livestock killed by wildlife. In this paper, the policy arrangement approach (PAA) is used to analyse this arrangement as a form of payment for environmental services (PES). Although there has been a considerable reduction in the number of lions killed, the analysis reveals several limitations of this arrangement, including three main side effects, namely it has initiated a process that is difficult to sustain or reverse, created a new cycle of dependence and widened the gap between different groups in the community. In conclusion, the drawbacks of this type of compensation fund must be addressed by combining such arrangements with other public and private policies and initiatives. Careful examination and comparison of different kinds of experiments with PES-like arrangements are required to further build understanding of the potential and different contributions of public and private, market-based initiatives in biodiversity governance.

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