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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Van Hecken, Gert
• Bastiaensen, Johan
• Huybrechs, Frédéric

Titel

Towards an Institutional Approach to Payments for Ecosystem Services: Perspectives from Two Nicaraguan Cases

Ist Teil von

• Governing the Provision of Ecosystem Services, p.357-375

Ort / Verlag

Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands

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Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Based on empirical evidence from two Nicaraguan case studies, we scrutinise the PES approach from both a supply and a demand-side perspective. First, our analysis of a silvopastoral PES project suggests that a combination of economic and non-economic factors motivated farmers to adopt the envisaged practices. The second case study assesses local willingness to pay for watershed services. Despite the existence of a demand for improved water services and a consciousness of upstream-downstream interdependencies, the feasibility of a locally financed PES system is undermined by local perceptions of agricultural externalities and entitlements. We conclude that a narrow market-based approach to PES may not adequately explain the typically complex dynamics operating in the field. A more flexible approach recognising the complex outcomes of institutional interplay may be more appropriate.