Under what conditions do payments for environmental services enable forest conservation in the Amazon? A realist synthesis

Montero-de-Oliveira Fernando-Esteba, Blundo Canto Genowefa, Ezzine De Blas Driss. 2023. Under what conditions do payments for environmental services enable forest conservation in the Amazon? A realist synthesis. Ecological Economics, 205:107697, 11 p.

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Thème(s) HCERES des revues (en SHS) : Economie-gestion

Résumé : Payments for environmental services (PES) have been widely studied as one possible way to counter deforestation and support livelihoods. Given the high rates of deforestation in the Amazon region, it is important to study under which conditions PES have positive environmental and social outcomes. We contribute to this debate through a systematic review based on the Realist Evaluation framework. First, we review case studies to identify configurations of social-ecological factors (context), PES design and implementation (resource mechanisms), people's responses (reasoning mechanisms), and the results in terms of forest conservation and people's livelihoods (outcomes). Second, we develop a middle-range theory of how, for whom, and under what conditions PES in the Amazon achieve these results. After screening 972 articles in the SCOPUS, Scielo, and WorldCat databases, we reviewed 13 articles in-depth that contained all the elements (context-mechanism-outcomes) needed to identify these configurations. Our results show that PES in the Amazon generate positive environmental and social outcomes when they: (a) combine cash and in-kind incentives, (b) raise environmental awareness through capacity building, (c) engage socially and ethnically diverse stakeholders through equitable and inclusive approaches, (d) apply transparent spatial targeting, (e) guarantee strong conditionality through robust monitoring of compliance, and (f) guarantee stable delivery of payments.

Mots-clés Agrovoc : déboisement, politique de l'environnement, forêt tropicale, forêt tropicale humide, conservation des ressources, conservation des forêts, protection de la forêt, gestion des ressources naturelles, forêt, facteur du milieu, protection de l'environnement, changement climatique, incitation

Mots-clés géographiques Agrovoc : Brésil, Pérou

Mots-clés libres : Conservation incentives, Tropical forest, Payment for environmental services, Impact, Realist evaluation

Classification Agris : P01 - Conservation de la nature et ressources foncières
K70 - Dégâts causés aux forêts et leur protection

Champ stratégique Cirad : CTS 1 (2019-) - Biodiversité

Agences de financement hors UE : Agence Nationale de la Recherche

Projets sur financement : (FRA) MUSE

Auteurs et affiliations

• Montero-de-Oliveira Fernando-Esteba, Université de Montpellier (FRA) - auteur correspondant
• Blundo Canto Genowefa, CIRAD-ES-UMR INNOVATION (FRA) ORCID: 0000-0003-4182-3663
• Ezzine De Blas Driss, CIRAD-ES-UPR Forêts et sociétés (COL)

Source : Cirad-Agritrop (https://agritrop.cirad.fr/603663/)

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