Institutional Rules in Action: A Multi-Level Analysis of Costa Rica’s Payments for Environmental Services Programme
Healthy ecosystems provide many environmental services (ES) that are indispensable for the wellbeing of humans.1 These services include climate regulation, water regulation, nutrient cycling, soil formation, pollination, and scenic beauty.2 In the past, ES have been undervalued3 since it has often been assumed they are public goods everyone should be able to enjoy free of charge.4 Moreover, private landowners have few economic incentives to protect the service-generating capacity of the ecosystems on their property.
Healthy ecosystems provide many environmental services (ES) such as carbon mitigation, water protection, biodiversity, and scenic beauty that are indispensable for the well-being of humans. Payments for Environmental Services (PES) programmes provide financial incentives for the conservation, sustainable management, and restoration of the ecosystems that ensure these services. Although PES programmes are growing in popularity within the sustainable development community, they remain a relatively new approach to environmental conservation and economic development. To further our understanding of how PES programmes work, this project presents a case study of Costa Rica’s fifteen-year old PES programme, known locally as Pagos de Servicios Ambientales (PSA), with a focus on institutional decision making. The Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework is applied in order to identity the actors, rules, and activities governing the programme and affecting its outcomes. Rules and activities are examined at the IAD’s four levels of analysis (operational-choice, collective-choice, constitutional-choice, and metaconstitutional-choice). Results suggest that decisions made at the two most upper tiers (constitutional-choice and metaconstitutional-choice) have had a large role in influencing the operational-choice level activities that have a direct effect on the programme’s outcomes.
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| Source: | Issue 3/2011 (Dezember 2011) | |
| Pages: | 14 | |
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| Autor: | Melissa Bollman  Scott D. Hardy | |
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