Fairly efficient, efficiently fair: Lessons from designing and testing payment schemes for ecosystem services in Asia

B. Leimona; M. van Noordwijk; J.C.J. Groot; R. Leemans

doi:10.1016/j.ecoser.2014.12.012

Fairly efficient, efficiently fair: Lessons from designing and testing payment schemes for ecosystem services in Asia

B. Leimona^*, M. van Noordwijk, J.C.J. Groot, R. Leemans

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Abstract

Paymentforecosystemservices(PES)iscommonlydefined asamarket-basedenvironmentalpolicy instrument toefficiently achieveecosystemservicesprovision.However,anincreasingbodyofliterature showsthatthisprescriptiveconceptualizationofPEScannotbeeasilygeneralizedandimplementedin practice, andthatthecommodification ofecosystemservices(ES)isproblematicandmayleadtounfair situations forrelevantPESactors.ThispapersynthesizescasestudiesinIndonesia,thePhilippinesand Nepal toprovideempiricalobservationsonemergingPESmechanismsinAsia.Lessonslearnedshow that fairnessandefficiency objectivesmustbeachievedsimultaneouslyindesigningandimplementing a sustainablePESscheme,especiallyindevelopingcountrycontexts.Neitherfairnessnorefficiency isa primary aimbutanintermediate ‘fairlyefficient andefficiently fair’ PES maybridgethegapbetweenPES theory andpracticetoincreasesustainableESprovisionandimprovelivelihoods.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	16-28
Journal	Ecosystem Services
Volume	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2014.12.012
Publication status	Published - 2015

Keywords

pacific decadal oscillation
normalized burn ratio
western united-states
climate-change
interior alaska
north-america
landsat data
new-mexico
vegetation
area

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