Investigating fishers� preferences for the design of marine Payments for Environmental Services schemes

Rhona Barr and Susana Mourato ()

No 101, GRI Working Papers from Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment

Abstract: We determine the effects of various management restrictions on adoption rates of marine PES schemes. Choice experiments are used in order to determine how fisher participation rates differ under different marine PES programme designs. Various designs, with differing restriction rates, show different rates of adoption. However, fishers� express a high utility loss associated with any move away from the current management situation, irrespective of restriction levels. This indicates that PES scheme costs may be high and creating an enabling environment could be important to reducing these perceived losses, as could investment into conditional in-kind compensation mechanisms. The paper also shows choice experiments to be a useful tool in marine PES design.

Date: 2012-11
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