Benefit distribution and equity in Ecuador's Socio Bosque Program
Författare
Summary, in English
In this article we analyze the equity and distribution of financial incentives in Ecuador's Programa Socio Bosque (PSB). PSB aims to conserve native ecosystems on privately owned lands while reducing rural poverty. Based on the analysis of 1,563 conservation contracts, representing nearly 900,000ha of land in Ecuador and more than 90,000 beneficiaries, we scrutinize the regional distribution of benefits among three regions (the Coast, the Andes, and the Amazon) and two contract types: land under individual ownership and land under collective ownership. We compare incentive distribution before and after a substantial change in the incentive scale, differentiating collective and individual landowners as well as forests and paramo ecosystems. Although PSB is a mechanism that incentivizes conservation stewardship, its distributional equity and ability to reduce rural poverty remain questionable, because poverty levels and population density in collective contracts are not sufficiently considered in the incentive scale.
Avdelning/ar
Publiceringsår
2013
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
1170-1184
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Society & Natural Resources
Volym
26
Issue
10
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Taylor & Francis
Ämne
- Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
Nyckelord
- collective landownership
- conservation
- Ecuador
- equity
- incentive
- distribution
- individual landownership
Status
Published
Projekt
- LUCID - Lund University Centre of Excellence for Integration of Social and Natural Dimensions of Sustainability
Forskningsgrupp
- LUCID - Lund University Centre of Excellence for Integration of Social and Natural Dimensions of Sustainability
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 0894-1920