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.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: EFForTS Discussion Paper Series ; No. 18

Classification
Wirtschaft
Subject
Payments for Environmental Services
efficiency equity trade-off
public good experiment
endowment heterogeneity
productivity heterogeneity

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Vorlaufer, Miriam
Ibanez, Marcela
Juanda, Bambang
Wollni, Meike
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
GOEDOC, Dokumenten- und Publikationsserver der Georg-August-Universität
(where)
Göttingen
(when)
2015

Handle
URN
urn:nbn:de:gbv:7-webdoc-3962-8
Last update
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  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Vorlaufer, Miriam
  • Ibanez, Marcela
  • Juanda, Bambang
  • Wollni, Meike
  • GOEDOC, Dokumenten- und Publikationsserver der Georg-August-Universität

Time of origin

  • 2015

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