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Are buyers of forest ecosystem services willing to consider distributional impacts of payments to local suppliers? Results from a choice experiment in Antananarivo, Madagascar

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2016

HENINTSOA RANDRIANARISON  and
FRANK WÄTZOLD
HENINTSOA RANDRIANARISON
Affiliation:
C3ED-Madagascar, University of Antananarivo, P.O. Box 905, Antananarivo, Madagascar Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg, Chair of Environmental Economics, P.O. Box 101344, 03013 Cottbus, Germany
FRANK WÄTZOLD*
Affiliation:
Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg, Chair of Environmental Economics, P.O. Box 101344, 03013 Cottbus, Germany
*
*Correspondence: Prof. Dr. Frank Wätzold e-mail: waetzold@b-tu.de
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Summary

A controversial issue in the debate on payments for ecosystem services (PESs) is whether distributional goals should be considered in the design of such schemes. We contribute to this debate by analysing the preferences of citizens of Antananarivo (Madagascar) as potential buyers of forest ecosystem services from a developing country. We conducted a choice experiment to investigate citizens’ willingness to pay to conserve the endemic spiny forests in southwest Madagascar and their preferences for including distributional goals in the design of a PES scheme aimed at spiny forest conservation. We found that respondents were willing to pay for forest conservation and preferred a PES scheme in which the poorest households in a community would receive the largest share of payments over a scheme in which every household would receive the same share, which, in turn, they preferred over a PES scheme in which they would have no information about its distributional impact. In comparing these results with those of a similar survey in a developed country (in Cottbus, Germany), we find that the preference ranking regarding distributional impacts is identical. However, citizens in Cottbus attach greater importance to the consideration of distributive goals in PESs than citizens in Antananarivo.

Keywords

choice modellingdistributional impactspayments for ecosystem servicesspiny forestsMahafaly region
Type
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Environmental Conservation , Volume 44 , Issue 1: Thematic section: Forest Ecosystem Services , March 2017 , pp. 74 - 81
Copyright
Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 2016 

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Supplementary material can be found online at https://doi.org/10.1017/S0376892916000540

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