Global Patterns in the Implementation of Payments for Environmental Services.
Assessing global tendencies and impacts of conditional payments for environmental services (PES) programs is challenging because of their heterogeneity, and scarcity of comparative studies. This meta-study systematizes 55 PES schemes worldwide in a quantitative database. Using categorical principal...
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| author | Driss Ezzine-de-Blas Sven Wunder Manuel Ruiz-Pérez Rocio Del Pilar Moreno-Sanchez |
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| description | Assessing global tendencies and impacts of conditional payments for environmental services (PES) programs is challenging because of their heterogeneity, and scarcity of comparative studies. This meta-study systematizes 55 PES schemes worldwide in a quantitative database. Using categorical principal component analysis to highlight clustering patterns, we reconfirm frequently hypothesized differences between public and private PES schemes, but also identify diverging patterns between commercial and non-commercial private PES vis-à-vis their service focus, area size, and market orientation. When do these PES schemes likely achieve significant environmental additionality? Using binary logistical regression, we find additionality to be positively influenced by three theoretically recommended PES 'best design' features: spatial targeting, payment differentiation, and strong conditionality, alongside some contextual controls (activity paid for and implementation time elapsed). Our results thus stress the preeminence of customized design over operational characteristics when assessing what determines the outcomes of PES implementation. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-02a0adeb93354b62912e0ed326b6f0f92022-12-22T03:13:11ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032016-01-01113e014984710.1371/journal.pone.0149847Global Patterns in the Implementation of Payments for Environmental Services.Driss Ezzine-de-BlasSven WunderManuel Ruiz-PérezRocio Del Pilar Moreno-SanchezAssessing global tendencies and impacts of conditional payments for environmental services (PES) programs is challenging because of their heterogeneity, and scarcity of comparative studies. This meta-study systematizes 55 PES schemes worldwide in a quantitative database. Using categorical principal component analysis to highlight clustering patterns, we reconfirm frequently hypothesized differences between public and private PES schemes, but also identify diverging patterns between commercial and non-commercial private PES vis-à-vis their service focus, area size, and market orientation. When do these PES schemes likely achieve significant environmental additionality? Using binary logistical regression, we find additionality to be positively influenced by three theoretically recommended PES 'best design' features: spatial targeting, payment differentiation, and strong conditionality, alongside some contextual controls (activity paid for and implementation time elapsed). Our results thus stress the preeminence of customized design over operational characteristics when assessing what determines the outcomes of PES implementation.http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4777491?pdf=render |
| spellingShingle | Driss Ezzine-de-Blas Sven Wunder Manuel Ruiz-Pérez Rocio Del Pilar Moreno-Sanchez Global Patterns in the Implementation of Payments for Environmental Services. PLoS ONE |
| title | Global Patterns in the Implementation of Payments for Environmental Services. |
| title_full | Global Patterns in the Implementation of Payments for Environmental Services. |
| title_fullStr | Global Patterns in the Implementation of Payments for Environmental Services. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Global Patterns in the Implementation of Payments for Environmental Services. |
| title_short | Global Patterns in the Implementation of Payments for Environmental Services. |
| title_sort | global patterns in the implementation of payments for environmental services |
| url | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4777491?pdf=render |
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