Market-ish instruments and other strange beasts: A personal wrap-up view

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2005
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This presentation provides a summary discussion of "market-ish" instruments for environmental service provision. Choice of an instrument should be based on the objectives and context of a program. Although the definition of Payments for Environmental Services (PES) includes the roles of both service users and service providers, attention is primarily given the service providers and not the users. A shift to service user-focused PES mechanisms ('supply-side PES') could make PES outcomes more cost-effective by basing payments on user WTP (willingness to pay). The presentation concludes with discussing when PES is potentially useful and issues involved in paying providers.

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Economic analyses, Payments for environmental services, Program planning, PES, Market-based instruments, Supply-side PES, Willingness to pay, Cost-effectiveness, Social inefficiencies, Financial inefficiencies, Service users
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Presented at the ZEF-CIFOR workshop: Payments for Environmental Services (PES): Methods and Design in Developing and Developed Countries, Titisee, Germany, 15-18 June 2005