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Le TAT, Vodden K, Wu J, Bullock R, Sabau G. Payments for ecosystem services programs: A global review of contributions towards sustainability. Heliyon 2024; 10:e22361. [PMID: 38173537 PMCID: PMC10761366 DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e22361] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2023] [Revised: 11/06/2023] [Accepted: 11/10/2023] [Indexed: 01/05/2024] Open
Abstract
Payments for ecosystem services programs (PESPs) are increasingly being adopted globally to enhance sustainability outcomes. There are also hundreds of studies yearly on various aspects of PESPs, but research on their contributions to sustainability of communities and the ecosystems they depend upon at the global scale are rare. Our global review explores twelve key characteristics of PESPs at three different phases (inputs - implementation - outputs and outcomes) and their relationship types of these characteristics to sustainability outcomes. To do so, we review 376 peer-review journal articles on PESPs, and test three hypotheses related to these relationships. Our findings confirm that the relationships between each of these characteristics and sustainability outcomes are bidirectional and/or multidirectional to some extent and can be positive, negative or both, depending on specific cases and research methods used to study these relationships. The findings also disclose that separating one characteristic as the primary causal factor in any relationship or outcome is not easy as relevant characteristics are linked in a complex network. Thereby, determining key characteristics of PESPs that drive relationships for the sake of sustainability is important. Through analyzing relationships between PESP characteristics, this study offers a series of suggestions to further aid the contributions of PESPs' contributions to sustainability in the future.
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Affiliation(s)
- Tuyet-Anh T. Le
- School of Science and the Environment, Grenfell Campus, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Corner Brook, NL A2H 5G4, Canada
- Environmental Policy Institute, Grenfell Campus, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Corner Brook, NL A2H 5G4, Canada
- Forestry Economics Research Centre, Vietnamese Academy of Forest Sciences, 46 Duc Thang ward, Northern Tu Liem, Hanoi 11910, Vietnam
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- School of Science and the Environment, Grenfell Campus, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Corner Brook, NL A2H 5G4, Canada
- Environmental Policy Institute, Grenfell Campus, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Corner Brook, NL A2H 5G4, Canada
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- School of Science and the Environment, Grenfell Campus, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Corner Brook, NL A2H 5G4, Canada
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- Department of Environmental Studies and Sciences, The University of Winnipeg, 515 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg, MB R3B2E9, Canada
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- School of Science and the Environment, Grenfell Campus, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Corner Brook, NL A2H 5G4, Canada
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Sargent R, Rakotonarivo OS, Rushton SP, Cascio B, Grau A, Bell AR, Bunnefeld N, Dickman A, Pfeifer M. An experimental game to examine pastoralists' preferences for human–lion coexistence strategies. PEOPLE AND NATURE 2022. [DOI: 10.1002/pan3.10393] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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- Rebecca Sargent
- School of Natural and Environmental Sciences Newcastle University Newcastle upon Tyne UK
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- School of Natural and Environmental Sciences Newcastle University Newcastle upon Tyne UK
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- Department of Earth and Environment Boston University Boston MA USA
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- Biological and Environmental Sciences University of Stirling Stirling UK
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- Wildlife Conservation Research Unit University of Oxford, Recanti‐Kaplan Centre Oxford UK
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- School of Natural and Environmental Sciences Newcastle University Newcastle upon Tyne UK
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