A Revealed Preference Approach to Estimating Supply Curves for Ecosystem Services: Use of Auctions to Set Payments for Soil Erosion Control in Indonesia

被引:93
作者
Jack, B. Kelsey [2 ]
Leimona, Beria [1 ]
Ferraro, Paul J. [3 ]
机构
[1] ICRAF SE Asia Reg Off J1 CIFOR, Bogor 16001, Indonesia
[2] Harvard Univ, John F Kennedy Sch Govt, Ctr Int Dev, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
[3] Georgia State Univ, Andrew Young Sch Policy Studies, Dept Econ, Atlanta, GA 30302 USA
关键词
conservation auction; conservation planning; payments for ecosystem services; poverty alleviation; program design; revealed preferences; supply curves; ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES; CONSERVATION; COSTS; INFORMATION;
D O I
10.1111/j.1523-1739.2008.01086.x
中图分类号
X176 [生物多样性保护];
学科分类号
090705 ;
摘要
To supply ecosystem services, private landholders incur costs. Knowledge of these costs is critical for the design of conservation-payment programs. Estimating these costs accurately is difficult because the minimum acceptable payment to a potential supplier is private information. We describe how an auction of payment contracts can be designed to elicit this information during the design phase of a conservation-payment program. With an estimate of the ecosystem-service supply curve from a pilot auction, conservation planners can explore the financial, ecological, and socioeconomic consequences of alternative scaled-up programs. We demonstrate the potential of our approach in Indonesia, where soil erosion on coffee farms generates downstream ecological and economic costs. Bid data from a small-scale, uniform-price auction for soil-conservation contracts allowed estimates of the costs of a scaled-up program, the gain from integrating biophysical and economic data to target contracts, and the trade-offs between poverty alleviation and supply of ecosystem services. Our study illustrates an auction-based approach to revealing private information about the costs of supplying ecosystem services. Such information can improve the design of programs devised to protect and enhance ecosystem services.
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页码:359 / 367
页数:9
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