Payments for ecosystem services in colombia: discourses, design and motivation crowding
- Autores: Lina Moros Canon
- Directores de la Tesis: Esteve Corbera (dir. tes.), María Alejandra Vélez (codir. tes.)
- Lectura: En la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona ( España ) en 2019
- Idioma: español
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- Resumen
Payments for ecosystem services (PES) have been promoted since the 1990s by global institutions, conservation NGOs, and both national and regional governments to incentivise landowners to maintain biodiversity and forest cover, as well as to restore or enhance the provision of ecosystem services. PES has permeated the environmental global policy agenda because it promises a direct conservation approach that simultaneously tackles environmental protection and poverty reduction. Latin America dominates PES implementation, with the Costa Rican (1998) and Mexican (2003) national programmes being two of the largest schemes in the world, followed by China’s Sloping Land Conversion programme. Despite the growing popularity of PES, it remains a contested and dynamic concept that raises many concerns including the monetisation of ecosystem functions, trade-offs between environmental effectiveness and equity considerations, and potential risks of motivation crowding, meaning that PES can, over time, diminish pro-environmental motivations.
Using a multi-disciplinary and mixed methods approach, this dissertation contributes to these debates by investigating how PES has been conceptualised and implemented in Colombia, a late-comer in the PES agenda which stands-out globally for both its high level of biodiversity and its rates of deforestation. This thesis makes two main contributions to PES literature: first, theoretically it shows the importance of identifying points of convergence across PES discourses to facilitate PES implementation according to local needs and realities. It also highlights the important role of motivations in the effectiveness of conservation policies aiming at behavioural changes. Second, methodologically, it advances Q-methodology by developing a systematic and replicable protocol to capture, define and prioritise PES statements from social media. It also proposes that motivations and behaviours should be analysed separately and not assumed as interchangeable.
