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    Incentives for Ecosystem Services on Rangelands: Institutional Design and Stakeholder Attitudes

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    Author
    Lien, Aaron Matthew
    Issue Date
    2017
    Keywords
    Endangered Species Management
    Environmental Policy
    Institutional Analysis and Development Framework
    Payments for Ecosystem Services
    Q Methodology
    Rancher Attitudes
    Advisor
    López-Hoffman, Laura
    Ruyle, George
    
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    The University of Arizona.
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    Abstract
    Payments for ecosystem services (PES), or conservation incentives, are an increasingly popular approach to encouraging natural resources conservation on private lands. The goal of PES approaches is to motivate conservation by private landowners that would not otherwise take place by providing an economic incentive. To achieve this goal, incentive programs must be available to landowners who can provide the desired services; supportive policy structures must be in place; landowners must be willing to participate as sellers of ecosystem services; and the program itself must have an institutional structure that effectively regulates the production, sale, and maintenance of targeted ecosystem services. This dissertation uses a combination of case study and comparative research methods to develop new knowledge and tools for assessing each of these necessary conditions for success. The potential development of an incentive program to conserve habitat for endangered jaguars in southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico is used as a case study to understand the attitudes of ranchers toward participation in PES programs and related policies and regulations. Results show that ranchers have strong intrinsic conservation motivations unrelated to economic incentives, coupled with significant concerns about the impacts of government regulations that could accompany participation in a PES program. Comparative research of the institutional structures of existing PES programs is carried out using the Institutional Analysis and Development framework. Focusing on water quality trading, one of the most common types of PES program, a classification system for PES program institutional arrangements is developed and the utility of the classification system for analyzing institutional diversity is demonstrated. Together, the case study and comparative research provide a means of linking empirical assessment of PES governance models with the preferences of targeted participants, increasing the likelihood of successful conservation outcomes.
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    Degree Level
    doctoral
    Degree Program
    Graduate College
    Arid Lands Resource Sciences
    Degree Grantor
    University of Arizona
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