Potential Economic Effectiveness of Payment for Environmental Services in a Protected Area in the State of Amazonas (Brazil)

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The implementation of payment for environmental services (PES) schemes in public protected areas raises several questions in economic, social, and environmental domains. In this paper, we analyze the case of Brazil’s Bolsa Floresta Program (BFP), established in the Protected Areas of the state of Amazonas and considered one of the largest programs in the world in terms of area of coverage. First, we verify whether the program meets the requirements of a typical PES: conditionality, additionality, and voluntariness. Secondly, we seek to evaluate the two key requirements for a PES to perform well: economic effectiveness and ecological sustainability. Studying the case of the Uatumã Sustainable Development Reserve (Uatumã SDR), we determine that the payments made do not cover the provider–receivers’ opportunity costs, which results in non-delivery of the contracted environmental services. The total area of secondary forest (SF) available to be incorporated into successive crop cycles might not be large enough to allow fallow periods of a long enough duration for soil fertility to recover fully. The intensification of agricultural activities in SF areas may lead to a degradation of the traditional agricultural system and a consequent loss of the ecosystem services that this system can potentially provide. In sum, these negative impacts indicate that, at least in the Uatumã SDR, the BFP might not be effective in the medium to long term.
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Henrique dos Santos Pereira

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Universidade Federal do Amazonas
PhD in Ecology. Professor at Universidade Federal do Amazonas (UFAM, Brazil).

Thaísa Rodrigues Lustosa de Camargo

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Universidade Federal do Amazonas
PhD in Environmental Sciences from Universidade Federal do Amazonas (UFAM, Brazil).

Suzy Cristina Pedroza da Silva

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Universidade Federal do Amazonas
PhD in Applied Geosciences from Universidade Federal do Amazonas (UFAM, Brazil). Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Amazonas (Fapeam, Brazil) scholarship holder.

Romero Gomes Pereira da Silva

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Universidade de Brasília
PhD in Sustainable Development from Universidade de Brasília (UnB, Brazil). Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (Capes, Brazil) scholarship holder.

Carlos Hiroo Saito

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Universidade de Brasília
PhD in Geography from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ, Brazil). Professor at the postgraduate program in Sustainable Development at the Universidade de Brasília (UnB, Brazil).

Ana Isabel Rosa Cabral

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Universidade de Lisboa
Researcher at Instituto Superior de Agronomia da Universidade de Lisboa (UL, Portugal).

Anne-Elisabeth Laques

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Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
PhD in Geography from Universite de Toulouse le Mirail (France) and Universidad de Los Andes (Venezuela). Researcher at Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (France).
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