Sammanfattning

Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) represent a popular strategy for environmental protection, and tropical forest conservation in particular. Little is known, however, about their effectiveness. Many argue that even if PES increase conservation while payments last, they may adversely affect other motivations for pro-environmental behaviour in the longer term. We test whether conditional payments also encourage forest users to conserve shared forest resources after payments end. Using a framed field experiment with 1,200 tropical forest users in five countries, we show that (1) during the intervention, conditional payments increased conservation behaviour; (2) after payments stopped, users continued to conserve more on average than they did before the intervention, especially when they were able to communicate with each other; and (3) trust amplified the lasting conservation effects of the interventions. PES effectiveness may increase when interventions facilitate interpersonal communication and when implemented in contexts where forest users enjoy high levels of trust.

Publicerad i

Nature sustainability
2018, Volym: 1, nummer: 3, sidor: 128-35

SLU författare

• Salk, Carl

  • Institutionen för sydsvensk skogsvetenskap, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    
  • International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)

Globala målen

SDG15 Skydda, återställa och främja ett hållbart nyttjande av landbaserade ekosystem, hållbart bruka skogar, bekämpa ökenspridning, hejda och vrida tillbaka markförstöringen samt hejda förlusten av biologisk mångfald
SDG17 Stärka genomförandemedlen och återvitalisera det globala partnerskapet för hållbar utveckling


UKÄ forskningsämne

Skogsvetenskap


Publikationens identifierare

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-018-0034-z

Permanent länk till denna sida (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/98289