TY - JOUR
T1 - Increasing Conservation Efficiency While Maintaining Distributive Goals With the Payment for Environmental Services
AU - Chu, Long
AU - Grafton, Quentin
AU - Keenan, Rodney
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - A key challenge in designing Payment for Environmental Services (PES) programs is to balance conservation efficiency with equity where, typically, decision makers do not have practical and quantitative tools to consider the possible trade-offs. Here, we propose a policy-relevant and implementable 'win-settle' model that allows PES decision makers to maximize efficiency while considering the distributive equity associated with beneficiary payments. To demonstrate our approach, we calibrate the model to a current PES program in Vietnam that has one of the world's most comprehensive and self-sustained payment schemes for forest conservation. The results indicate that our approach could generate a substantial improvement relative to current methods. In other words, for the same expenditure and identical horizontal equity in payments to beneficiaries, more forest could be conserved, and with a lower administrative burden.
AB - A key challenge in designing Payment for Environmental Services (PES) programs is to balance conservation efficiency with equity where, typically, decision makers do not have practical and quantitative tools to consider the possible trade-offs. Here, we propose a policy-relevant and implementable 'win-settle' model that allows PES decision makers to maximize efficiency while considering the distributive equity associated with beneficiary payments. To demonstrate our approach, we calibrate the model to a current PES program in Vietnam that has one of the world's most comprehensive and self-sustained payment schemes for forest conservation. The results indicate that our approach could generate a substantial improvement relative to current methods. In other words, for the same expenditure and identical horizontal equity in payments to beneficiaries, more forest could be conserved, and with a lower administrative burden.
U2 - 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2018.10.003
DO - 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2018.10.003
M3 - Article
SN - 0921-8009
VL - 156
SP - 202
EP - 210
JO - Ecological Economics
JF - Ecological Economics
ER -