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The challenges of collective PES: Insights from three community-based models in Vietnam

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doi:10.1016/j.ecoser.2022.101438
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Van Thi Hai Nguyen · Pamela D. McElwee · Hue Thi Van Le · Tuyen Phuong Nghiem · Huong Thi Dieu Vu
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2022
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Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey · University of Lausanne · VNU Central Institute for Natural Resources and Environmental Studies · Vietnam National University, Hanoi

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Vietnam has adopted a national Payment for Forest Environmental Services (PES) policy, which while primarily paying individual households for forest protection, has been flexible enough to allow for collective PES models to also arise. Such collective models have the potential to reduce transaction costs, avoid motivation crowding, and protect common-pool resources like community forests. This paper analyzes three different types of collective PES models that have been tried in Vietnam: community land titles and PES payments to whole villages; group titles and PES payments to collections of households; and collective patrolling with payment contracts but without land tenure rights. We draw on fieldwork across three provinces to examine how these different forms of collective PES have arisen, and how they have articulated with existing forest governance institutions and local social characteristics. We also assess what the advantages and disadvantages for each model are. Overall, we argue that none of Vietnam's collective PES models have achieved unqualified success in generating positive collective action outcomes, and each has challenges that have undermined group efforts, exacerbated underlying problems, or even created new conflicts. Based on our assessment, achieving a mix of individual (primarily financial) benefits together with collective rights and benefits is important for both social cohesion and forest protection. As a result, improving existing local institutional capacities and reinforcing group cohesion to achieve collective action success remain needed within Vietnam’s collective PES models.

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10.1016/j.ecoser.2022.101438

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Van Thi Hai Nguyen; Pamela D. McElwee; Hue Thi Van Le; Tuyen Phuong Nghiem; Huong Thi Dieu Vu. The challenges of collective PES: Insights from three community-based models in Vietnam. 2022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2022.101438

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Van Thi Hai Nguyen; Pamela D. McElwee; Hue Thi Van Le; Tuyen Phuong Nghiem; Huong Thi Dieu Vu. (2022). The challenges of collective PES: Insights from three community-based models in Vietnam. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2022.101438
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Van Thi Hai Nguyen; Pamela D. McElwee; Hue Thi Van Le; Tuyen Phuong Nghiem; Huong Thi Dieu Vu. The challenges of collective PES: Insights from three community-based models in Vietnam. 2022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2022.101438
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Van Thi Hai Nguyen; Pamela D. McElwee; Hue Thi Van Le; Tuyen Phuong Nghiem; Huong Thi Dieu Vu. The challenges of collective PES: Insights from three community-based models in Vietnam. 2022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2022.101438

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