About the project
PESILA-REDD will employ integrated methodology to address gaps in the evaluation of payments for environmental services (PES) and their cost-effectiveness in Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD) in developing countries. This project’s innocations lies in bringing together novel quantitative impact evaluation (IE) methods, with qualitative policy assessment methods to adress six specific methodological challenges identified in the objectives below.
Duration: 2011-2013
Objectives
PESILA-REDD will employ integrated methodology to address gaps in the evaluation of payments for environmental services (PES) and their cost-effectiveness in Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD) in developing countries. The proposal’s scientific innovation lies in bringing together novel quantitative impact evaluation (IE) methods, with qualitative policy assessment methods, to address six specific methodological challenges: Process legitimacy in PES enabling conditions, Transferability of PES impact evaluations, Trade-offs between ecosystem services at different spatial scales, Reducing sampling bias through better matching of PES and non-PES farm counterfactuals, Distinguishing spill-over and neighborhood effects, Identifying a cost-effective PES targeting ‘benchmark’ as a policy counterfactual.
Financing
The Norwegian Research Council
Cooperation
Project coordinated by David Barton, at NINA in collaboration with Fridtjof Nansens Institutt, SUM, CATIE and CIPAV.