A comparative study of transaction costs of payments for forest ecosystem services in Vietnam

null Thu-Ha Dang Phan; Roy Brouwer; Long Phi Hoang; Marc David Davidson

doi:10.1016/j.forpol.2017.03.017

A comparative study of transaction costs of payments for forest ecosystem services in Vietnam

Thu-Ha Dang Phan^*, Roy Brouwer, Long Phi Hoang, Marc David Davidson

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Abstract

Two payments for forest ecosystem services (PFES) schemes under one common legal-institutional coordination mechanism but different historical-institutional background and organizational design are analyzed to measure and explain their transaction costs (TC). Data on TC related to payment transfers and conditionality compliance are collected using a combination of in-depth interviews with local PFES scheme coordinators, site visits, and secondary data analysis. The two PFES schemes show substantial differences in TC despite the fact that they emerged from the same legal-institutional framework due to differences in participation rates, types of forest ecosystem services providers, and payment characteristics. (C) 2017 Published by Elsevier B.V.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	141-149
Number of pages	9
Journal	Forest Policy and Economics
Volume	80
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2017.03.017
Publication status	Published - Jul 2017

Keywords

Payments for forest ecosystem services
Transaction costs
Conditionality
Institutional design
Vietnam
ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES
DEVELOPING-COUNTRIES
RESOURCE-MANAGEMENT
REDUCING EMISSIONS
DESIGNING PAYMENTS
POLICY
DEFORESTATION
PERFORMANCE
PROJECTS
PROGRAMS

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