Research topics / Legal & institutional options & constraints (WP6)
Institutional and legal options and constraints
WP 6 will establish a framework for analyzing institutional constraints and options that condition the introduction and applicability of economic policy instruments for biodiversity conservation. Our focus will be on both formal institutions (law, administrative structures) and informal institutions (practices, traditions, beliefs) that affect the opportunities for adoption of particular policy instruments in several country specific contexts.
Contact: Eeva Primmer, SYKE
Objectives
- provide a conceptual framework for an analysis of country specific institutional and legal constraints and options to be applied in the cases studies
- summarise country specific institutional and legal constraints and options drawing on case studies
- identify legal constraints and options for the use of economic instruments in biodiversity policies based on EU law
- provide new insights onto how the European law could be developed to overcome identified constraints
Task 1. Framework for analysing institutional path dependency of biodiversity policies
Task 2 Legal constraints and options
Task 3 Country specific institutional options and constraints in case studies
Abebe, S. et al. (2011) A review of the cost-effectiveness and performance of selected Verifiable Emission Reduction (VER) carbon offsets. Joint Technical Brief POLIYCMIX and FUNCiTREE No. 1
Project publications • Ecosystem service values
Andrade, J. et al., compensation for Legal Reserves in Northwest Mato Grosso: a policymix to reduce deforestation
Project publications • Modelling
Balvanera, P. et al.(2012). Ecosystem services research in Latin America: The state of the art . Ecosystem Services, In Press
Peer reviewed • Biodiversity and ecosystem impact;Ecosystem service values;Policy instruments - AEM
Barton et al. (2014) Guidelines for multi-scale policy mix assessments. POLICYMIX Technical Brief No. 12
Project publications • Institutional fit;Policy instruments - Comparisons & mixes
Barton, D. N. et al. (2010) Assessing the Role of Economic Instruments in a Policy Mix for Biodiversity Conservation and Ecosystem Services Provision: A Review of Some Methodological Challenges. Discussion Paper 1-2010
Project publications • Policy instruments - Comparisons & mixes
Barton, D. N. et al. (2012)Assessment of existing and proposed policy instruments for biodiversity conservation in Norway. Report 1/2012
Project publications • Policy instruments - Comparisons & mixes
Barton, D. N. et al. (2013) Guidelines for opportunity cost evaluation of conservation policy instruments. Technical Brief Issue no. 11 (rev.)
Project publications • Ecosystem service values
Barton, D.N. , I. Ring, G. Rusch (2014) Policyscape: Nature-based policy mixes for biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services provision
Project publications • Institutional fit;Policy instruments - Comparisons & mixes
Barton, D.N. et al. (2013) Policyscape—A Spatially Explicit Evaluation of Voluntary Conservation in a Policy Mix for Biodiversity Conservation in Norway. Society & Natural Resources: An International Journal, 26:10, 1185-1201
Peer reviewed • Biodiversity and ecosystem impact;Ecosystem service values;Modelling;Policy instruments - Protected area enforcement;Policy instruments - PES
Begossi, A., May, P. H., Lopes, P. F., Oliveira, L.E.C., Vinha, V. and Silvano, R.A.M. 2011. Compensation for environmental services from artisanal fisheries in SE Brazil: Policy and technical strategies. Ecological Economics, 71:25- 32.
Peer reviewed
Bernasconi, P.; S. Blumentrath; D.N. Barton; G. Rusch & A. R. Romeiro (2013) Policyscape— The potential of Tradable Development Rights (TDR) to improve effectiveness and reduce the costs of biodiversity conservation: study case in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Project publications • Biodiversity and ecosystem impact;Ecosystem service values;Modelling
Bittner, S. and Lienhoop, N., 2013: Understanding non-participation of farmers in agri-environmental schemes for afforestation. The case of West Saxony.
Project publications • Ecosystem service values
Blumentrath, S. (2011) Site prioritisation models and their suitability for assessing and designing policy mixes for biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services provision: a comparison of software packages. Technical Brief Issue no.4
Project publications • Biodiversity and ecosystem impact;Modelling
Brouwer, R. and Simon, T. (2011) Review of the Biodiversity Valuation Literature and Meta-Analysis. Report 5/2011
Project publications • Ecosystem service values;Modelling
Brouwer, R. et al. (2013) Guidelines for biodiversity valuation and benefits assessment of economic instruments. Tecnical Brief Issue no. 10
Project publications • Ecosystem service values
Brouwer, R., Tesfaye, A., and Pauw, P. (2011). Meta-analysis of institutional-economic factors explaining the environmental performance of payments for watershed services. Environmental Conservation, 38(4), 380-392.
Peer reviewed • Ecosystem service values;Modelling
Bunikyte, R., G. M. Rusch, and B. J. Graae. 2012. A time-line analysis of the public biodiversity conservation mix: Changes in conservation gains in the county of Sør-Trøndelag.
Project publications • Biodiversity and ecosystem impact
Cassola, R.S. 2011. Ecological Fiscal Transfers for Biodiversity Conservation: Options for a federal-state arrangement in Brazil. Master thesis, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau.
Project publications • Institutional fit;Modelling;Policy instruments - Ecological fiscal transfers
Chacón-Cascante et al. 2013. Evaluating the policymix path dependency of PES using socio-ecological system characteristics: the case of Hojancha, Nicoya and Nandayure
Project publications • Institutional fit;Policy instruments - PES
Chacón-Cascante et al. 2014. Social Impact evaluation of forest conservation and reforestation PES contracts in Hojancha
Project publications • Social impact;Policy instruments - PES
Chacón-Cascante, A.et al. (2012). Costa Rica: National level assessment of the role of economic instruments in the conservation policymix. Report 2/2012
Project publications • Policy instruments - Comparisons & mixes;Policy instruments - Protected area enforcement;Policy instruments - AEM
Clemente, P., Santos, R., Antunes, P., Pinto, R. Assessing farmers’ perceptions and performance of agri-environmental schemes in a multifunctional agro-forest system: lessons for instrument design in a conservation policymix.
Project publications • Biodiversity and ecosystem impact;Social impact;Policy instruments - Protected area enforcement;Policy instruments - AEM
Cárdenas et al. 2014. Costa Rica: Effectivity of PES carbon balance in livestock systems in Nicoya peninsula, Costa Rica
Project publications • Biodiversity and ecosystem impact;Policy instruments - PES
Dang Phan, T. et al. (2014) The economic costs of avoided deforestation in the developing world: A meta-analysis. Journal of Forest Economics 20 (2014) 1-16
Peer reviewed
Del Arco, P., May P. H., Rusch, G.. 2013. The effect of forest proximity on biological control of pasture in Northwest Mato Grosso, Brazil: an economic analysis for land use policy. ESEE Conference, Lille.
Project publications • Biodiversity and ecosystem impact
Droste, N. 2013. Naturschutz im föderalen System Deutschlands. Eine ökonomische Perspektive auf einen ökologischen Länderfinanzausgleich. Masterarbeit, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg und Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung - UFZ, Leipzig, Oldenburg.
Project publications • Institutional fit;Modelling;Policy instruments - Ecological fiscal transfers
Droste, N., Ring, I., Schröter-Schlaack, C., Lenk, T. Ecological Fiscal transfers in Germany. Discussion paper draft.
Project publications • Institutional fit
Fasiaben, M.C.R., Gori, A., Andrade, D.C., Ângelo, J.A. Costs of environmental protection in different types of agricultural production units: the case of Cantareira-Mantiqueira Corridor Region.
Project publications • Ecosystem service values;Policy instruments - PES
Grieg-Gran, M. et al. (2011) Guidelines for Assessing Social Impacts and Legitimacy in Conservation. Technical Guide Issue no. 1
Project publications • Social impact
Grieg‐Gran, M. et al. (2013) Best practice guidelines for assessing social impacts and legitimacy of conservation policy instruments. Technical Brief Issue no.8
Project publications • Social impact
J. Vivan (in memoriam), R. Davenport, P.C. Nunes, R. Abad, P.H. May, D.N. Barton, L.P. Amaral. 2013. Pilot projects and agroenvironmental measures in northwest Mato Grosso, Brazil: impacts and lesson for REDD+ policy “mixes.” Paper presented at ESEE Conference, Lille.
Project publications • Biodiversity and ecosystem impact
Kachele, K. et al. (2012) Forest certification: a voluntary instrument for environmental governance. In: Bandyopadhyay, J.; Chopra, K.; Ghosh, N. (eds.) Environmental governance: Approaches, imperatives and methods. Bloomsbury, Mumbai, p. 281-300, 2012.
Peer reviewed
Klassert, C., und Möckel, S. (2013). Improving the Policy Mix: The Scope for Market-Based Instruments in EU Biodiversity Policy. Environmental Policy and Governance (EPG) 23: 311-322
Peer reviewed • Policy instruments - Comparisons & mixes;Policy instruments - AEM;Policy instruments - Tradable rights & offsets
Lienhoop, N., Brouwer, R., 2014: Agrienvironmental policy valuation: Farmers‘ design preferences for afforestation schemes. Land Use Planning
Peer reviewed • Ecosystem service values
Lindhjem, H ., K. Grimsrud, S. Navrud and S. O. Kolle (forthcoming) "The Social Benefits and Costs of Preserving Forest Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services".
Peer reviewed
Lindhjem, H. and Mitani, Y. (2012) Forest owners’ willingness to accept compensation for voluntary conservation: A contingent valuation approach. Journal of Forest Economics 18 (2012) 290–302
Peer reviewed
May P. H., M. F. Gebara, G. Lima, C. Jordão, P. Nogueira, M. Grieg-Gran. 2013. The effectiveness and fairness of the “Ecological ICMS” as a fiscal transfer for biodiversition conservation. A tale of two municipalities in Mato Grosso, Brazil. Paper presented at ESEE Conference, Lille.
Project publications • Policy instruments - Ecological fiscal transfers
May, P. et al. (2012) Assessment of the role of economic and regulatory instruments in the conservation policymix for the Brazilian Amazon – a coarse grain study. Report 5/2012
Project publications • Policy instruments - Comparisons & mixes;Policy instruments - REDD PLUS;Policy instruments - Ecological fiscal transfers;Policy instruments - Protected area enforcement;Policy instruments - AEM;Policy instruments - Tradable rights & offsets
May, P.H. et al (2012) The "Ecological" Value Added Tax (ICMS-Ecologico) in Brazil and its effectiveness in State biodiversity conservation: a comparative analysis
Project publications • Institutional fit;Policy instruments - Ecological fiscal transfers
May, P.H. et al (2013) The effectiveness and fairness of the "Ecological ICMS" as a fiscal transfer for biodiversity conservation. A tale of two municipalities in Mato Grosso, Brazil.
Project publications • Social impact;Policy instruments - Ecological fiscal transfers
Mitani, Y. and H. Lindhjem (2014) "Forest owners' participation in voluntary biodiversity conservation in Norway: What does it take to forego forestry for eternity?"... Resubmitted and under review, Revised April 2014.
Peer reviewed
Möckel, S. 2013 Zeitschrift für Europäisches Umwelt- und Planungsrecht 2013 (11), p. 85 - 94
Peer reviewed • Institutional fit
Paloniemi, Riikka and Vainio, Annukka (2011) 'Legitimacy and empowerment: combining two conceptual approaches for explaining forest owners' willingness to cooperate in nature conservation', Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences, 8: 2, 123 - 138
Peer reviewed • Social impact;Policy instruments - AEM
Pinto, R., Antunes, P., Santos, R., Blumentrath, S., Clemente, P. Evaluating spatial targeting and planning effectiveness of policies: Illustrative example of an agri-environmental measure application in a multifunctional system. (in preparation)
Project publications • Biodiversity and ecosystem impact;Ecosystem service values;Modelling;Policy instruments - Protected area enforcement
Porras, I. , A. Chacon Cascante, D.N.Barton, D. Tobar (2014) Ecosystems for Sale. Land prices and payments for ecosystem services in Costa Rica
Project publications • Ecosystem service values;Modelling;Policy instruments - PES
Porras, I., Barton, D.N, Miranda, M. and Chacón-Cascante, A. (2013). Learning from 20 years of Payments for Ecosystem Services in Costa Rica. International Institute for Environment and Development, London.
Policy instruments - PES
Primmer (2011), Analysis of institutional adaptation: integration of biodiversity conservation into forestry, Journal of Cleaner Production, 19: 16, 1822 - 1832
Peer reviewed • Biodiversity and ecosystem impact;Institutional fit;Policy instruments - Protected area enforcement
Primmer, E. et al. (2011) Draft Guidelines for the analysis of institutions shaping biodiversity policy instrument applicability. Technical Brief Issue No. 2
Project publications • Institutional fit
Primmer, E. et al. (2013) Best practice guidelines on the role of multi‐level governance institutions in policy. Technical Brief Issue No. 9
Project publications • Institutional fit
Primmer, E. et al. (2013) Finland: Assessment of existing and proposed policy instruments for biodiversity conservation at national level POLICYMIX Report Issue No 2/2013. This report replaces POLICYMIX Report 4/2012.
Project publications • Policy instruments - Comparisons & mixes;Policy instruments - Protected area enforcement;Policy instruments - AEM
Primmer, E. et al.(2013) Evolution in Finland's Forest Biodiversity Conservation Payments and the Institutional Constraints on Establishing New Policy, Society and Natural Resources, 0:1-18
Peer reviewed • Institutional fit;Policy instruments - PES
Primmer, E., Paloniemi, R., Similä, J., Tainio A. 2014. Forest owner perceptions of institutions and voluntary contracting for biodiversity conservation: Not crowding out but staying out. Ecological Economics 103, 1-10.
Peer reviewed • Institutional fit;Policy instruments - PES
Puga, B.P., Chiodi, R., Sarcinelli, O., Andrade, D.C., Romeiro, A.R. Institutional aspects of PES schemes in Cantareira System Region.
Project publications • Institutional fit;Policy instruments - PES
Raitanen, E. et al. (2013) Economic Instruments for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Conservation & the EU State Aid. Regulation. Journal for european environmental & planning law 10(1), 6-28.
Peer reviewed • Institutional fit;Policy instruments - PES
Ramos-Bendaña et al. 2014. Evaluating spatial targeting of payments for forest ecosystem services: Using ‘policy benchmark scenarios’ derived from conservation planning tools
Project publications • Biodiversity and ecosystem impact;Ecosystem service values;Policy instruments - PES
Ring, I. et al. (2011) Instrument Mixes for Biodiversity Policies. Report 2/2011
Project publications • Policy instruments - Comparisons & mixes;Policy instruments - REDD PLUS;Policy instruments - Ecological fiscal transfers;Policy instruments - Protected area enforcement;Policy instruments - AEM;Policy instruments - Tradable rights & offsets
Ring, I. et al. (2011) Recommendations for assessing instruments in policy mixes for biodiversity and ecosystem governance. Technical Brief Issue no. 5
Project publications • Policy instruments - Comparisons & mixes;Policy instruments - Trade policy;Policy instruments - REDD PLUS;Policy instruments - Ecological fiscal transfers;Policy instruments - AEM;Policy instruments - Tradable rights & offsets
Robalino et al. Substitutability and complementarity of forest conservation policies
Project publications • Biodiversity and ecosystem impact;Modelling;Policy instruments - PES
Romeiro, A.R. et al. (2012) Assessment of existing and proposed policy instruments for biodiversity conservation in São Paulo -Brazil: a coarse grain analysis. Report 3/2012
Project publications • Policy instruments - Comparisons & mixes;Policy instruments - Ecological fiscal transfers;Policy instruments - AEM;Policy instruments - Tradable rights & offsets
Rugtveit, S.V., D. N. Barton, S. Navrud, A. Chacón Cascante (2013) Transaction and compliance costs of payments for ecosystem services in a public-private benefits framework - a case study from Peninsula de Nicoya, Costa Rica. Submitted to Ecosystem Services
Project publications • Institutional fit;Policy instruments - PES
Rusch,G.M. et al. (2011) Existing data and adequacy of the datasets for the national and local scales analyses for assessing gains in maintaining biodiversity. POLICYMIX Report Issue 3/2011
Project publications • Biodiversity and ecosystem impact
Rusch,G.M. et al. (2011) Policy outcomes: A guideline to assess biodiversity conservation and ESS provision gains. Technical Brief Issue no.3
Project publications • Biodiversity and ecosystem impact
Rusch,G.M. et al. (2013) Best practice guidelines for assessing effectiveness of instruments on biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services provision. Technical Brief Issue no. 7
Project publications • Biodiversity and ecosystem impact
Sanchez, Oscar (2014): Arreglos Institucionales del Programa de Pago por Servicios Ambientales (PSA) en Costa Rica
Policy instruments - PES
Santos, R. et al. (2012) Assessment of the role of economic instruments in the Portuguese conservation policymix – a national coarse grain analysis. Report 6/2012
Project publications • Policy instruments - Comparisons & mixes;Policy instruments - Ecological fiscal transfers;Policy instruments - Protected area enforcement;Policy instruments - AEM
Santos, R., Antune,s P., Ring, I., Clemente, P., Ribas, T., Directing economic instruments at public and private local stakeholders for biodiversity conservation. The case of agrienvironment schemes and ecological fiscal transfers. Environmental Policy and Governance
Peer reviewed
Santos, R., Clemente, P., Brouwer, R., Antunes, P., Pinto, R., Landowners Preferences for Agri-Environmental Agreements to Improve the Conservation Value of the Montados’ Ecosystem in Portugal (to be submitted in May 2014)
Project publications • Modelling
Santos, R., May, P., Barton, D.N., and Ring, I. (eds.) 2014. Comparative assessment of policy mixes across case studies - common design factors and transferability of assessment results. Report 1/2014.
Project publications • Institutional fit;Policy instruments - Comparisons & mixes;Policy instruments - Ecological fiscal transfers;Policy instruments - AEM;Policy instruments - PES
Santos, R., Ring, I., Antunes, P., Clemente, P., 2012. Fiscal transfers for biodiversity conservation: the Portuguese Local Finances Law. Land Use Policy, 29, 261-273 Acknowledgement: SCALES EC-FP7 project, which funded part of the research
Peer reviewed • Policy instruments - Ecological fiscal transfers
Schröter et al. (2014) Accounting for capacity and flow of ecosystem services: A conceptual model and a case study for Telemark, Norway. Ecological Indicators 36, 539-551.
Peer reviewed • Ecosystem service values
Schröter et al. (2015) Ecosystem Services and Opportunity Costs Shift Spatial Priorities for Conserving Forest Biodiversity. PLOS ONE November 13, 2014
Peer reviewed • Biodiversity and ecosystem impact;Ecosystem service values;Policy instruments - Comparisons & mixes;Policy instruments - Protected area enforcement;Policy instruments - PES
Schröter et al.(2014) Lessons learned for spatial modelling of ecosystem services in support of ecosystem accounting. Ecosystem Services. Available online 1 August 2014.
Project publications • Ecosystem service values;Modelling;Policy instruments - REDD PLUS;Policy instruments - Ecological fiscal transfers;Policy instruments - PES
Schröter-Schlaack, C., Ring, I., Koellner, T., Santos, R., Antunes, P., Clemente, P., Mathevet, R., Borie, M., Grodzińska-Jurczak, M. (2014): Intergovernmental fiscal transfers to support local conservation action in Europe. The German Journal of Economic Geography
Peer reviewed • Institutional fit
Schröter-Schlaack, C., Ring, I., Koellner, T., Santos, R., Antunes, P., Clemente, P., Mathevet, R., Borie, M., Grodzińska-Jurczak, M. (2014): Intergovernmental fiscal transfers to support local conservation action in Europe. The German Journal of Economic Geography 58(2-3). Special Issue on “The economics of protected areas – a European perspective”, 98-114
Project publications • Policy instruments - Ecological fiscal transfers
Schröter‐Schlaack,C.et al.(2013) Assessment of existing and proposed policy instruments for biodiversity conservation in Germany The role of ecological fiscal transfers. Report 1/2013
Project publications • Policy instruments - Comparisons & mixes;Policy instruments - Ecological fiscal transfers
Schulz- Zunkel, C., Schröter-Schlaack, C., Ring, I. & Klenke, R. (2014): Selecting biodiversity indicators for implementing ecological fiscal transfers at state level in GermanySubmitted to Ecological Indicators
Project publications • Biodiversity and ecosystem impact;Policy instruments - Ecological fiscal transfers
Simila, J. et al. (2014) Biodiversity Protection in Private Forests: An Analysis of Compliance Journal of Environmental Law, 2014, 0, 1–21
Peer reviewed • Institutional fit;Policy instruments - PES
Similä, J. et al. (2012) Legal analysis of the relationship between European state aid and nature conservation law, and economic instruments for biodiversity protection. Report 7/2012
Project publications • Institutional fit;Policy instruments - Trade policy;Policy instruments - REDD PLUS
Svarstad, H. et al. (2011) Three types of environmental justice - From concepts to empirical studies of social impacts of policy instruments for conservation of biodiversity. Report No 1
Project publications • Social impact
Sverdrup-Thygeson et al. (2015) Spatial Overlap between Environmental Policy Instruments and Areas of High Conservation Value in Forest
Project publications • Biodiversity and ecosystem impact;Policy instruments - PES
Vatn et al.(2014) Payments for Nature Values Market and Non-market Instruments
Project publications • Biodiversity and ecosystem impact;Ecosystem service values;Social impact;Institutional fit;Policy instruments - Comparisons & mixes;Policy instruments - REDD PLUS;Policy instruments - PES
Vatn, A. et al. (2011) Can markets protect Biodiversity? An evaluation of different financial mechanisms
Project publications • Biodiversity and ecosystem impact;Social impact;Institutional fit;Policy instruments - Comparisons & mixes;Policy instruments - REDD PLUS;Policy instruments - Ecological fiscal transfers;Policy instruments - Protected area enforcement;Policy instruments - AEM;Policy instruments - Tradable rights & offsets