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- Title
Conservation versus Equity: Can Payments for Environmental Services Achieve Both?
- Authors
Vorlaufer, Miriam; Ibanez, Marcela; Juanda, Bambang; Wollni, Meike
- Abstract
Based on a framed field experiment, we investigate the trade-off between conservation and equity in the use of payments for environmental services (PES). We compare the effects of two PES schemes that implicitly incorporate different distributive justice principles: a flat-rate payment per biophysical unit conserved and a redistributive payment based on the Rawls maxi-min distributional principle. The main findings indicate that the introduction of a redistributive scheme can function as a multipurpose instrument. Under the assumed condition that participants with lower endowments face higher opportunity costs of conservation, it realigns the income distribution in favor of low-endowed participants without compromising conservation outcomes.
- Subjects
PAYMENTS for ecosystem services; CONSERVATION of natural resources; BIOPHYSICS; POLLUTION control industry; ENVIRONMENTAL protection
- Publication
Land Economics, 2017, Vol 93, Issue 4, p667
- ISSN
0023-7639
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3368/le.93.4.667