DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1919783117
论文题名: Fair payments for effective environmental conservation
作者: Loft L. ; Gehrig S. ; Salk C. ; Rommel J.
刊名: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
ISSN: 0027-8424
出版年: 2020
卷: 117, 期: 25 起始页码: 14094
结束页码: 14101
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Behavioral economics
; Biodiversity
; Climate change
; Environmental justice
; Payments for ecosystem services
Scopus关键词: adult
; article
; behavior change
; behavioral economics
; biodiversity
; climate change
; controlled study
; environmental policy
; female
; gender
; human
; justice
; male
; national park
; randomized controlled trial
; tropical rain forest
; vignette
; behavioral economics
; economics
; environmental protection
; income
; social psychology
; Conservation of Natural Resources
; Economics, Behavioral
; Humans
; Income
; Psychology, Social
英文摘要: Global efforts for biodiversity protection and land use-based greenhouse gas mitigation call for increases in the effectiveness and efficiency of environmental conservation. Incentive-based policy instruments are key tools for meeting these goals, yet their effectiveness might be undermined by such factors as social norms regarding whether payments are considered fair. We investigated the causal link between equity and conservation effort with a randomized real-effort experiment in forest conservation with 443 land users near a tropical forest national park in the Vietnamese Central Annamites, a global biodiversity hotspot. The experiment introduced unjustified payment inequality based on luck, in contradiction of local fairness norms that were measured through responses to vignettes. Payment inequality was perceived as less fair than payment equality. In agreement with our preregistered hypotheses, participants who were disadvantaged by unequal payments exerted significantly less conservation effort than other participants receiving the same payment under an equal distribution. No effect was observed for participants advantaged by inequality. Thus, equity effects on effort can have consequences for the effectiveness and efficiency of incentive-based conservation instruments. Furthermore, we show that women exerted substantially more conservation effort than men, and that increasing payment size unexpectedly reduced effort. This emphasizes the need to consider social comparisons, local equity norms, and gender in environmental policies using monetary incentives to motivate behavioral change. © 2020 National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/164151
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作者单位: Loft, L., Working Group Governance of Ecosystem Services, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research, Müncheberg, 15374, Germany; Gehrig, S., Berlin, 10961, Germany; Salk, C., Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, 23053, Sweden; Rommel, J., Department of Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Ultuna, Uppsala, 75651, Sweden
Recommended Citation:
Loft L.,Gehrig S.,Salk C.,et al. Fair payments for effective environmental conservation[J]. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America,2020-01-01,117(25)