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- ISIDORE Id: 10670/1.8629ae...
- hal: hal-02619521
- doi: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2019.106428
- PII: S0921-8009(18)31111-X
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Payment for environmental services Conservation policies Economic incentives Ecosystems Biodiversity offsetsSujets proches
Biological diversity Biotic diversity Diversity, Biological Diversification, Biological Biological diversificationCiter ce document
Anne-Charlotte Vaissiere et al., « Biodiversity offsets and payments for environmental services: Clarifying the family ties », HAL SHS (Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société), ID : 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2019.106428
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Biodiversity Offsets (BO) and Payments for Environmental Services (PES) are sometimes used interchangeably to characterize innovative economic tools to conserve or restore biodiversity, ecosystems, or their services. We assume that a confusion between PES and BO can have negative implications for biodiversity conservation. In this paper, we argue that these two tools follow different targets and have different founding principles, and thus, their basic mode of functioning would only coincide under special circumstances and institutional contexts. Here, we propose a new definition of BO, delimiting them more clearly from PES, and use practical examples to underscore conceptual differences. Both tools require specific policy framework conditions, in terms of rights, responsibilities, and enforcement. If unmet, however, the implications for biodiversity conservation outcomes are stronger for BO than for PES since BO are explicitly linked to biodiversity losses, while PES typically are not. PES experiences can certainly inform BO implementation vis-a-vis contract design and enforcement, but these PES lessons need to be enacted vis-a-vis BO specific requirements, in order not to underestimate generic risks in their implementation: if a PES scheme fails, payments can be stopped; if a BO fails, biodiversity losses remain.
