Payments for Environmental Services and Motivation Crowding : Towards a Conceptual Framework
Ezzine-de-Blas, Driss (Montpellier University)
Corbera, Esteve (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals)
Lapeyre, Renaud (Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations)

Date:	2019
Abstract:	Research on Payments for Environmental Services has only recently started to pay attention to motivation "crowding", i. e. the effect that such rewards might have on either strengthening (crowding-in) or weakening (crowding-out) participants' intrinsic motivations to protect and sustainably manage natural ecosystems. In this Introduction to the special issue Crowding-out or crowding-in? Behavioral and motivational responses to economic incentives for conservation, we propose a conceptual framework that maps out how PES implementation, or incentive-based conservation more broadly, might lead to motivation and behavioural change, drawing on theoretical insights and empirical evidence from behavioural economics and social psychology. We also explain how PES design and implementation factors, such as payment type, communication and verbal rewards, inclusive and participatory decision-making, and monitoring and sanctioning procedures, might harm or enhance intrinsic motivations. We suggest that motivation crowding depends on how these policy features are perceived by and affect an individual's need for satisfaction, modulated in turn by the stimulation or inhibition of competence, autonomy, social and environmental relatedness. We highlight the importance of measuring these variables and their motivation and behavioural outcomes in future PES research, in order to relate psychological processes with other contextual determinants of PES social-ecological performance.
Grants:	Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad MDM2015-0552 Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad PRI-PIMBDV-2011-1072
Note:	Unidad de excelencia María de Maeztu MdM-2015-0552
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió acceptada per publicar
Published in:	Ecological economics, Vol. 156 (February 2019) , p. 434-443, ISSN 0921-8009

DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2018.07.026

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