Biodiversity Protection in Private Forests: PES Schemes, Institutions and Prosocial Behavior
The overall research question addresses the effectiveness of incentive mechanisms in poli -cies that enhance private forest owners’ biodiversity protection. In particular, the paper focuses on the link between forest owners’ motivations, incentives, and institutions, and questions the incentives of...
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| author | Jens Abildtrup Anne Stenger Francis de Morogues Philippe Polomé Marieke Blondet Claude Michel |
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| description | The overall research question addresses the effectiveness of incentive mechanisms in poli -cies that enhance private forest owners’ biodiversity protection. In particular, the paper focuses on the link between forest owners’ motivations, incentives, and institutions, and questions the incentives of the current biodiversity protection policies. Our hypothesis is that the purely monetary nature of the incentives can cause a “crowding out effect”, i.e., forest owners may reduce their voluntary contribution to biodiversity protection that is driven by prosocial motivations (altruism, self-image, etc.). With this in mind, as well as the knowledge acquired via this project about forest owners’ motivations, we looked for the most effective combinations of “incentive mechanisms” (monetary and non-monetary) and “institutions” (national and local authorities, NGOs, etc.) to encourage forest owners to adopt biodiversity protection measures in their forests. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b28fd36a7a484358904bd266e18188682023-11-22T13:08:12ZengMDPI AGForests1999-49072021-09-01129124110.3390/f12091241Biodiversity Protection in Private Forests: PES Schemes, Institutions and Prosocial BehaviorJens Abildtrup0Anne Stenger1Francis de Morogues2Philippe Polomé3Marieke Blondet4Claude Michel5INRAE, BETA-Université de Lorraine, 54000 Nancy, FranceINRAE, BETA-Université de Strasbourg, 67081 Strasbourg, FranceFCBA, 38610 Grenoble, FranceFaculty of Economics and Management, Université de Lyon, 69007 Lyon, FranceAgroParisTech, 54000 Nancy, FranceParc du Ballon des Vosges, 68140 Munster, FranceThe overall research question addresses the effectiveness of incentive mechanisms in poli -cies that enhance private forest owners’ biodiversity protection. In particular, the paper focuses on the link between forest owners’ motivations, incentives, and institutions, and questions the incentives of the current biodiversity protection policies. Our hypothesis is that the purely monetary nature of the incentives can cause a “crowding out effect”, i.e., forest owners may reduce their voluntary contribution to biodiversity protection that is driven by prosocial motivations (altruism, self-image, etc.). With this in mind, as well as the knowledge acquired via this project about forest owners’ motivations, we looked for the most effective combinations of “incentive mechanisms” (monetary and non-monetary) and “institutions” (national and local authorities, NGOs, etc.) to encourage forest owners to adopt biodiversity protection measures in their forests.https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/12/9/1241PESprosocial behaviorcrowding outbiodiversitychoice experimentforest owners |
| spellingShingle | Jens Abildtrup Anne Stenger Francis de Morogues Philippe Polomé Marieke Blondet Claude Michel Biodiversity Protection in Private Forests: PES Schemes, Institutions and Prosocial Behavior Forests PES prosocial behavior crowding out biodiversity choice experiment forest owners |
| title | Biodiversity Protection in Private Forests: PES Schemes, Institutions and Prosocial Behavior |
| title_full | Biodiversity Protection in Private Forests: PES Schemes, Institutions and Prosocial Behavior |
| title_fullStr | Biodiversity Protection in Private Forests: PES Schemes, Institutions and Prosocial Behavior |
| title_full_unstemmed | Biodiversity Protection in Private Forests: PES Schemes, Institutions and Prosocial Behavior |
| title_short | Biodiversity Protection in Private Forests: PES Schemes, Institutions and Prosocial Behavior |
| title_sort | biodiversity protection in private forests pes schemes institutions and prosocial behavior |
| topic | PES prosocial behavior crowding out biodiversity choice experiment forest owners |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/12/9/1241 |
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