Arbeitspapier
Conservation vs. equity: Can payments for environmental services achieve both?
This paper investigates the trade-off between conservation and equity considerations in the use of payments for environmental services (PES) that implicitly incorporate different distributive justice principles. Using a public good experiment with heterogeneous participants, we compare the effects on additional area conserved and distribution of earnings of two PES schemes: an equal payment and a payment based on Rawls distributional principle, which we refer to as maxi-min payment scheme. The main findings of the framed field experiment conducted in Jambi province (Indonesia) indicate that the introduction of a maxi-min PES scheme can function as a multi-purpose instrument. It realigns the income distribution in favor of low-endowed participants and does not necessarily need to be compromised by lower environmental additionality at the group level.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: EFForTS Discussion Paper Series ; No. 18
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
- Subject
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Payments for Environmental Services
efficiency equity trade-off
public good experiment
endowment heterogeneity
productivity heterogeneity
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Vorlaufer, Miriam
Ibanez, Marcela
Juanda, Bambang
Wollni, Meike
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Veröffentlichung
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GOEDOC, Dokumenten- und Publikationsserver der Georg-August-Universität
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Göttingen
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2015
- Handle
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:gbv:7-webdoc-3962-8
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Vorlaufer, Miriam
- Ibanez, Marcela
- Juanda, Bambang
- Wollni, Meike
- GOEDOC, Dokumenten- und Publikationsserver der Georg-August-Universität
Time of origin
- 2015