The role of situated knowledge and values in reshaping payment for hydrological services programs in Veracruz, Mexico: An actor-oriented approach
Por:
Selfa, Theresa, Urcuqui-Bustamante, Andres M., Cordoba, Diana, Avila-Foucat, V. Sophie, Pischke, Erin C., Jones, Kelly W., Nava-Lopez, Mariana Z., Torrez, David M.
Publicada:
1 oct 2022
Resumen:
Payment for ecosystem services (PES) is a prominent neoliberal,
market-based environmental policy tool to promote conservation of
biodiversity and ecosystem services (ES) that has been applied since the
late 1990s in both industrialized and developing countries. Recent
studies have documented how PES programs do not actually function as
market-based programs, and that they are often modified on the ground by
local actors. Adding to this literature, our study uses an
actor-oriented approach to examine how local actors in Veracruz, Mexico
respond to and make changes to payment for hydrological services (PHS)
programs, a prominent PES program used to address water quality and
quantity issues. Drawing on interviews with 15 institutional actors and
58 landowners, we investigate how these actors challenge and modify
these programs to make them more responsive to local socioecological
conditions and needs. Our argument is that situated knowledge about land
uses and socioecological conditions, and norms of equity and fairness,
play central roles in empowering social actors to alternately adopt,
contest, and re-shape PHS programs to better meet local conditions and
needs.
Filiaciones:
SUNY-ESF Department of Environmental Studies, SUNY-ESF, Syracuse, NY, United States
SUNY-ESF, University of Maine, United States
Global Development Studies, Queen's University, Canada
Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas, y Laboratorio Nacional de Resiliencia Costera, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico (UNAM), Mexico
Ecosystem Workforce Program, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States
Human Dimensions of Natural Resources, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States
World Wildlife Fund-Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad Autónoma de Chiapas (FCS-UNACH), Mexico
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