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

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...

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Main Authors: Pagiola, Stefano, Honey-Rosés, Jordi, Freire-González, Jaume
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
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Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2014
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spelling okr-10986-210392021-04-23T14:04:00Z Evaluation of the Permanence of Land Use Change Induced by Payments for Environmental Services in Quindío, Colombia Pagiola, Stefano Honey-Rosés, Jordi Freire-González, Jaume PAYMENTS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES (PES) IMPACT EVALUATION LIVESTOCK SILVOPASTORAL COLOMBIA PAYMENTS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES (PES) IMPACT EVALUATION LIVESTOCK SILVOPASTORAL COLOMBIA AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION AGRICULTURE AGROFORESTRY AIR POLLUTION ARTHROPOD SPECIES BAMBOO BASELINE DATA BASELINE SURVEY BIODIVERSITY BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION BIODIVERSITY INDEX BIODIVERSITY POLICY BIOMASS BREEDING BUTTERFLY CANOPY CARBON CATTLE CHANGES IN LAND USE CLEAN WATER CLIMATE CLIMATE CHANGE COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS CONSERVATION ACTIVITIES CONSERVATION BENEFITS CONSERVATION BIOLOGY CONSERVATION INITIATIVES CONSERVATION INTERVENTIONS CONSERVATION OF BIODIVERSITY CONSERVE BIODIVERSITY CORDILLERA DEFORESTATION DEGRADED ECOSYSTEMS DEGRADED PASTURE DEGRADED PASTURES ECOLOGICAL CONDITIONS ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS ECONOMIC CONDITIONS ECOSYSTEM ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT ECOSYSTEM SERVICES EMISSIONS EMISSIONS FROM DEFORESTATION EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS ENVIRONMENTAL ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMIST ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICE ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES ENVIRONMENTS EXTERNALITY FARMS FENCE FENCES FENCING FISHER FODDER FOLIAGE FOREST FOREST CONSERVATION FOREST COVER FOREST DEGRADATION FOREST LOSS FOREST MARGINS FOREST REMNANTS FORESTS FUELWOOD GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT FACILITY ISSUES LAND AREA LAND CONVERSION LAND CONVERSION PROGRAM LAND ECONOMICS LAND OWNERS LAND USE LAND USE CHANGE LAND USE CHANGES LAND USE DECISIONS LAND USERS LAND USES LANDSCAPE LOSS OF BIODIVERSITY NATURAL HABITAT NATURAL RESOURCES OPEN ACCESS OXEN PARTNERSHIP PASTURE PASTURES PLANTING POLICY INSTRUMENTS PRESENT VALUE PRIMARY FOREST PRODUCERS RECYCLING REDUCING EMISSIONS REFUGE RURAL DEVELOPMENT SAVANNAS SEA SEA LEVEL SECONDARY FORESTS SOIL SOIL EROSION SPILLAGE SUSTAINABLE BENEFITS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT TIMBER TIMBER PLANTATIONS TREE TREES TROPICAL DEFORESTATION TROPICAL FOREST TROPICAL FORESTS VEGETATION WATERSHED WILD BIRDS WILDLIFE WILDLIFE SPECIES 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 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 PES recipients and control households were re-surveyed in 2011, four years after the last payment was made. We find that the land use changes that had been induced by PES were broadly sustained in intervening years, with minor differences across specific practices and sub-groups of participants. The patterns of change in the period after the PES program was completed also help better understand the reasons for the program s success. These results suggest that, at least in the case of productive land uses such as silvopastoral practices, PES programs can be effective at encouraging land owners to adopt environmentally-beneficial management practices and that the benefits will persist after payments cease. 2014-12-30T22:01:12Z 2014-12-30T22:01:12Z 2014-09 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/ http://hdl.handle.net/10986/21039 English en_US CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Working Paper Colombia
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topic PAYMENTS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES (PES)
IMPACT EVALUATION
LIVESTOCK
SILVOPASTORAL
COLOMBIA PAYMENTS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES (PES)
IMPACT EVALUATION
LIVESTOCK
SILVOPASTORAL
COLOMBIA
AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION
AGRICULTURE
AGROFORESTRY
AIR POLLUTION
ARTHROPOD SPECIES
BAMBOO
BASELINE DATA
BASELINE SURVEY
BIODIVERSITY
BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION
BIODIVERSITY INDEX
BIODIVERSITY POLICY
BIOMASS
BREEDING
BUTTERFLY
CANOPY
CARBON
CATTLE
CHANGES IN LAND USE
CLEAN WATER
CLIMATE
CLIMATE CHANGE
COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS
CONSERVATION ACTIVITIES
CONSERVATION BENEFITS
CONSERVATION BIOLOGY
CONSERVATION INITIATIVES
CONSERVATION INTERVENTIONS
CONSERVATION OF BIODIVERSITY
CONSERVE BIODIVERSITY
CORDILLERA
DEFORESTATION
DEGRADED ECOSYSTEMS
DEGRADED PASTURE
DEGRADED PASTURES
ECOLOGICAL CONDITIONS
ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS
ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
ECOSYSTEM
ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT
ECOSYSTEM SERVICES
EMISSIONS
EMISSIONS FROM DEFORESTATION
EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS
ENVIRONMENTAL
ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS
ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS
ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMIST
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICE
ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES
ENVIRONMENTS
EXTERNALITY
FARMS
FENCE
FENCES
FENCING
FISHER
FODDER
FOLIAGE
FOREST
FOREST CONSERVATION
FOREST COVER
FOREST DEGRADATION
FOREST LOSS
FOREST MARGINS
FOREST REMNANTS
FORESTS
FUELWOOD
GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT FACILITY
ISSUES
LAND AREA
LAND CONVERSION
LAND CONVERSION PROGRAM
LAND ECONOMICS
LAND OWNERS
LAND USE
LAND USE CHANGE
LAND USE CHANGES
LAND USE DECISIONS
LAND USERS
LAND USES
LANDSCAPE
LOSS OF BIODIVERSITY
NATURAL HABITAT
NATURAL RESOURCES
OPEN ACCESS
OXEN
PARTNERSHIP
PASTURE
PASTURES
PLANTING
POLICY INSTRUMENTS
PRESENT VALUE
PRIMARY FOREST
PRODUCERS
RECYCLING
REDUCING EMISSIONS
REFUGE
RURAL DEVELOPMENT
SAVANNAS
SEA
SEA LEVEL
SECONDARY FORESTS
SOIL
SOIL EROSION
SPILLAGE
SUSTAINABLE BENEFITS
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
TIMBER
TIMBER PLANTATIONS
TREE
TREES
TROPICAL DEFORESTATION
TROPICAL FOREST
TROPICAL FORESTS
VEGETATION
WATERSHED
WILD BIRDS
WILDLIFE
WILDLIFE SPECIES
spellingShingle PAYMENTS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES (PES)
IMPACT EVALUATION
LIVESTOCK
SILVOPASTORAL
COLOMBIA PAYMENTS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES (PES)
IMPACT EVALUATION
LIVESTOCK
SILVOPASTORAL
COLOMBIA
AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION
AGRICULTURE
AGROFORESTRY
AIR POLLUTION
ARTHROPOD SPECIES
BAMBOO
BASELINE DATA
BASELINE SURVEY
BIODIVERSITY
BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION
BIODIVERSITY INDEX
BIODIVERSITY POLICY
BIOMASS
BREEDING
BUTTERFLY
CANOPY
CARBON
CATTLE
CHANGES IN LAND USE
CLEAN WATER
CLIMATE
CLIMATE CHANGE
COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS
CONSERVATION ACTIVITIES
CONSERVATION BENEFITS
CONSERVATION BIOLOGY
CONSERVATION INITIATIVES
CONSERVATION INTERVENTIONS
CONSERVATION OF BIODIVERSITY
CONSERVE BIODIVERSITY
CORDILLERA
DEFORESTATION
DEGRADED ECOSYSTEMS
DEGRADED PASTURE
DEGRADED PASTURES
ECOLOGICAL CONDITIONS
ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS
ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
ECOSYSTEM
ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT
ECOSYSTEM SERVICES
EMISSIONS
EMISSIONS FROM DEFORESTATION
EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS
ENVIRONMENTAL
ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS
ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS
ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMIST
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICE
ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES
ENVIRONMENTS
EXTERNALITY
FARMS
FENCE
FENCES
FENCING
FISHER
FODDER
FOLIAGE
FOREST
FOREST CONSERVATION
FOREST COVER
FOREST DEGRADATION
FOREST LOSS
FOREST MARGINS
FOREST REMNANTS
FORESTS
FUELWOOD
GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT FACILITY
ISSUES
LAND AREA
LAND CONVERSION
LAND CONVERSION PROGRAM
LAND ECONOMICS
LAND OWNERS
LAND USE
LAND USE CHANGE
LAND USE CHANGES
LAND USE DECISIONS
LAND USERS
LAND USES
LANDSCAPE
LOSS OF BIODIVERSITY
NATURAL HABITAT
NATURAL RESOURCES
OPEN ACCESS
OXEN
PARTNERSHIP
PASTURE
PASTURES
PLANTING
POLICY INSTRUMENTS
PRESENT VALUE
PRIMARY FOREST
PRODUCERS
RECYCLING
REDUCING EMISSIONS
REFUGE
RURAL DEVELOPMENT
SAVANNAS
SEA
SEA LEVEL
SECONDARY FORESTS
SOIL
SOIL EROSION
SPILLAGE
SUSTAINABLE BENEFITS
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
TIMBER
TIMBER PLANTATIONS
TREE
TREES
TROPICAL DEFORESTATION
TROPICAL FOREST
TROPICAL FORESTS
VEGETATION
WATERSHED
WILD BIRDS
WILDLIFE
WILDLIFE SPECIES
Pagiola, Stefano
Honey-Rosés, Jordi
Freire-González, Jaume
Evaluation of the Permanence of Land Use Change Induced by Payments for Environmental Services in Quindío, Colombia
geographic_facet Colombia
description 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 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 PES recipients and control households were re-surveyed in 2011, four years after the last payment was made. We find that the land use changes that had been induced by PES were broadly sustained in intervening years, with minor differences across specific practices and sub-groups of participants. The patterns of change in the period after the PES program was completed also help better understand the reasons for the program s success. These results suggest that, at least in the case of productive land uses such as silvopastoral practices, PES programs can be effective at encouraging land owners to adopt environmentally-beneficial management practices and that the benefits will persist after payments cease.
format Publications & Research :: Working Paper
author Pagiola, Stefano
Honey-Rosés, Jordi
Freire-González, Jaume
author_facet Pagiola, Stefano
Honey-Rosés, Jordi
Freire-González, Jaume
author_sort Pagiola, Stefano
title Evaluation of the Permanence of Land Use Change Induced by Payments for Environmental Services in Quindío, Colombia
title_short Evaluation of the Permanence of Land Use Change Induced by Payments for Environmental Services in Quindío, Colombia
title_full Evaluation of the Permanence of Land Use Change Induced by Payments for Environmental Services in Quindío, Colombia
title_fullStr Evaluation of the Permanence of Land Use Change Induced by Payments for Environmental Services in Quindío, Colombia
title_full_unstemmed Evaluation of the Permanence of Land Use Change Induced by Payments for Environmental Services in Quindío, Colombia
title_sort evaluation of the permanence of land use change induced by payments for environmental services in quindío, colombia
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2014
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/21039
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