Social Equity and Payments for Ecosystem Services: From Macro to Micro

• Main Author: Lliso, Bosco
• Other Authors: Prof. Dr. Stefanie Engel
• Format: Doctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Payments for ecosystem services; PES; equity; Colombia; indigenous; participation; distribution; recognition; deliberative valuation; choice experiment; ddc:333.7
• Online Access: https://repositorium.ub.uni-osnabrueck.de/handle/urn:nbn:de:gbv:700-201911212231

The overarching question that this thesis sheds some light on is whether making PES more equitable increases the likelihood that they will be successful. The findings of the three empirical chapters suggest that policy-makers would do well to keep equity consideration in mind when designing PES. The first of these chapters is based on the results of a survey of dozens of PES in Latin America. The second and third chapters use a deliberative choice experiments approach to measure participant preferences towards different equity design characteristics of PES in an indigenous community in Colombia, where one of these programs is likely to be implemented in the near future.