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Adrian Martin1, Nicole Gross-Camp1, Bereket Kebede1
1University of East Anglia, School of International Development, Norwich NR4 7TJ, United Kingdom.
Global Environmental Change : Human and Policy Dimensions
|February 3, 2017
Summary
Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) effectively support biodiversity conservation in African protected areas. While monitoring is cost-effective short-term, PES uniquely shifts conservation motives and improves local perceptions for long-term sustainability.
Area of Science:
- Environmental Management
- Conservation Biology
- Ecological Economics
Background:
- Growing interest in evaluating Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) as an environmental management tool.
- Need to assess PES effectiveness for biodiversity conservation in African protected areas.
Purpose of the Study:
- To experimentally evaluate PES as a tool for biodiversity conservation.
- To investigate the impacts of PES on effectiveness, efficiency, and equity.
Main Methods:
- Utilized a 'before and after' and 'with and without' experimental design.
- Conducted social and ecological surveys to gather data.
Main Results:
- PES schemes were effective in achieving additional conservation outcomes.
- Increased monitoring proved similarly effective in the short term at a lower cost.
- PES significantly altered conservation motives and improved local perceptions of the protected area and its authority.
Conclusions:
- Conservation efficiency should encompass long-term behavioral motive sustainability, not just short-term cost-effectiveness.
- PES offers a unique contribution by fostering sustainable motives and resolving equity-efficiency trade-offs.
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