气候变化领域集成服务门户(CCPortal): Effectiveness of payment for ecosystem services after loss and uncertainty of compensation

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DOI	10.1038/s41893-021-00804-5
	Effectiveness of payment for ecosystem services after loss and uncertainty of compensation
	Hayes T.; Murtinho F.; Wolff H.; López-Sandoval M.F.; Salazar J.
发表日期	2021
ISSN	2398-9629
英文摘要	Payment for ecosystem services (PES) programmes seek to promote conservation via payments for desired resource-use behaviours. While PES has been found to produce some ecological and livelihood benefits, an understudied concern is what happens when payments stop. We assess how households’ land-use behaviours changed in response to a temporary gap in payments and subsequent payment uncertainty in a programme in Ecuador, which paid communities to reduce their grazing on their communal lands. In 2015, after six years in operation, the programme lost funds and stopped payments. These resumed in 2017, but participants were only partially repaid retroactively, and future payments remained uncertain due to funding instability. Using a difference-in-difference modelling approach, we compare household grazing behaviour between communities in the programme and a set of control communities over ten years before PES payments, during PES payments and after the gap in payments in a period where participants were still owed at least one past payment and future payments were uncertain (n = 871 households). We find that grazing was significantly reduced by almost 20% over the ten-year period and that households continued to refrain from grazing even after experiencing payment loss. Our results demonstrate the importance of aligning programme objectives with community conservation and livelihood goals. Our discussion suggests how these conditions may interact with PES to prompt sustained behavioural change. © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited.
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Conservation; Ecosystems; Natural resources management; Uncertainty analysis; Community conservations; Condition; Control community; Difference-in-differences models; Ecuador; Modeling approach; Payments for ecosystem services; Resource use; Service program; Uncertainty; Land use
来源期刊	Nature Sustainability
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/249880
作者单位	Environmental Studies and Institute of Public Service, Seattle University, Seattle, WA, United States; International Studies and Institute of Public Service, Seattle University, Seattle, WA, United States; Economics, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada; Development, Environment and Territory, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Quito, Ecuador; Estudios y Servicios Ambientales Cia. Ltda., Quito, Ecuador
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Hayes T.,Murtinho F.,Wolff H.,et al. Effectiveness of payment for ecosystem services after loss and uncertainty of compensation[J],2021.
APA	Hayes T.,Murtinho F.,Wolff H.,López-Sandoval M.F.,&Salazar J..(2021).Effectiveness of payment for ecosystem services after loss and uncertainty of compensation.Nature Sustainability.
MLA	Hayes T.,et al."Effectiveness of payment for ecosystem services after loss and uncertainty of compensation".Nature Sustainability (2021).