Sven Wunder | Center for International Forestry Research | Brazil
Using a spatial simulation model we analyze alternative approaches to integrating payments for environmental services and regulatory disincentives for forest conservation in the Brazilian Amazon. We show that this particular policy mix, if adequately combined, can help balance efficiency and equity objectives of conservation policy in the context of the Brazilian Amazon.
Hugo Rosa | Center for Development Research | Germany
Dr. Jan Boerner | University of Bonn | Germany
The article seeks to understand the governance structures and the dynamics of agenda setting and policy design of three government-led, incentive based forest conservation schemes in the Amazon, through a framework based of public policy theories. It discusses the political-administrative contexts of the emergence of those schemes and which factors were determinant in the policy design process.
MA. Nils Droste | Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ | Germany
Dr. Irene Ring | UFZ - Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research | Germany
Dr. Christoph Schröter-Schlaack | Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ | Germany
Integrating ecological indicators into the intergovernmental fiscal transfer system in Germany can compensate states that designate an above average share of their area for nature conservation. An appropriate instrumental design that internalizes spillover benefits from protected areas increases social welfare by providing a greater supply of and cost savings in nature conservation.
PhD Sophie Ménard | Cemotev/University of Versailles | France
Prof. Dr. Géraldine Froger | Cemotev/UVSQ | France
Adverse effects through infrastructure developments are one of the major causes of biodiversity loss. To overcome this statement, biodiversity offset is increasingly used as policy mix despite unclear frameworks. This paper aims at clarifying offset practices through three different schemes and makes a comparative analysis of their opportunities and risks from ecological and economic perspectives.
Dr. Lasse Loft | Senckenberg Gesellschaft | Germany
At the current stage of national scale REDD+ implementation policy makers need to choose between different options of benefit sharing mechanisms. We developed an assessment framework, that takes into account how different mechanisms perform (1) in terms of incentive distribution and stakeholder targeting (2) institutional change, and (3) outcome, to guide the decision making process.