What Makes Pes Fair?
Payments for ecosystem services (PES) have become a popular approach for biodiversity conservation. PES policy discussions have largely focused on their effectiveness at achieving environmental objectives at lowest cost, and some authors have highlighted that this potentially requires trading-off environmental for social outcomes. We focus on the social dimension by measuring fairness perceptions and individual-level fairness preferences among a sample of African farmers. We further associate the heterogeneity in fairness preferences and perceptions to PES schemes using different design elements including auctions and fixed-price schemes to allocate PES contracts. Using a framed field experiment we find that farmers vary in which PES allocation mechanism they prefer, and that this is not affected by fairness preferences (inequality aversion). However, fairness perceptions, especially regarding procedural fairness, do affect farmers’ preferred choice of PES allocation mechanism. This result suggests that procedural fairness considerations can be important for policymakers and practitioners in PES design. Finally, we also discuss the complementarity of field and laboratory data with respect to experimental control and representativeness
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[2022]
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Authors: | Gsottbauer, Elisabeth ; Kouakou, Abel-Gautier ; Engel, Stefanie |
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[S.l.] : SSRN |
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