Performance payments for carnivore conservation in Sweden

Astrid Zabel and Karin Holm-Muller

No 57031, Discussion Papers from University of Bonn, Institute for Food and Resource Economics

Abstract: Solving carnivore-livestock conflicts is essential if goals to preserve biodiversity conservation are taken seriously and livelihoods especially of poor livestock owners are to be safeguarded. This paper presents an innovative performance payment approach for carnivore conservation, that has been successfully implemented in Sweden. Performance payments are made to reindeer herding Sami villages for certified carnivore offspring on the villages’ territories. First results support the assumption that this approach has the potential to solve many problems inherent to conventional compensation schemes. A well designed common pool regime is deemed necessary to direct the incentives set by the internal distribution of the performance payments toward collective action in carnivore conservation.

Keywords: Environmental Economics and Policy; Institutional and Behavioral Economics; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 8
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.57031

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