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2016 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

7. Paying for Ecosystem Services

Authors : Juha Hiedanpää, Daniel W. Bromley

Published in: Environmental Heresies

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK

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Abstract

Payments for ecosystem services (PES) have become a popular approach to bring about improved environmental behaviors. When such programs are launched in developing countries, an additional benefit is that they are said to improve incomes for the poor. In this chapter, we argue that PES schemes are not “market-based.” Indeed, they are not even “market-like.” The incentive properties said to be present in such programs are of doubtful efficacy. We suggest that PES schemes are instances of a new class of transaction—the inducing transaction—whose purpose is to make certain resource users the instruments of the desires of others. We relate the success of PES schemes to Veblenian habituation and Peircean habit breaking and habit taking to suggest that PES schemes face a daunting challenge if they are to bring about durable behavioral changes.

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Metadata
Title
Paying for Ecosystem Services
Authors
Juha Hiedanpää
Daniel W. Bromley
Copyright Year
2016
Book
Environmental Heresies

Print ISBN: 978-1-137-60082-0

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-137-60083-7

Copyright Year: 2016

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-60083-7_7