Evaluation of the Permanence of Land Use Change Induced by Payments for Environmental Services in Quindio, Colombia.

ABSTRACT: The effectiveness of conservation interventions such as Payments for Environmental Services (PES) is often evaluated--if it is evaluated at all--only at the completion of the intervention. Since gains achieved by the intervention may be lost after it ends, even apparently successful interventions may not result in long-term conservation benefits, a problem known as that of permanence. This paper uses a unique dataset to examine the permanence of land use change induced by a short-term, asset-building PES program implemented in Quindío, Colombia, between 2003 and 2008. This the first PES program to have a control group for comparison. Under this program, PES had been found to have a positive and highly significant impact on land use. To assess the long-term permanence of these changes, both

SUBMITTER: Pagiola S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4773100 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature