Conservation vs. equity: Can payments for environmental services achieve both?

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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.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

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

Classification and Topics

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

Contributors, Places and Time

• 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

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/120868
• URN: urn:nbn:de:gbv:7-webdoc-3962-8
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET