TY - JOUR
T1 - Transforming peri-urban territories through payment for ecosystem services networks in Southern Brazil
AU - Weins, Niklas Werner
AU - da Silva, Christian Luiz
AU - Gadda, Tatiana Maria Cecy
AU - da Costa Ferreira, Leila
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2022/12/16
Y1 - 2022/12/16
N2 - The importance of institutional arrangements for nature conservation, like Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) is recognized in the literature but needs more empirical exploration in peri-urban contexts where power imbalances play out more strongly due to urbanization drivers. We documented the actor configurations in the peri-urban environment of a watershed PES in Curitiba and conducted a Social Network Analysis (SNA) to enhance our analysis with a power layer. The analysis points to access advantages of powerful urban stakeholders to promote the commoditization of nature through PES, lacking stakeholder engagement which amplifies inequalities in peri-urban territories. In Brazil’s current political scenario the neglect of environmental institutions shows increasing effects on conservation.
AB - The importance of institutional arrangements for nature conservation, like Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) is recognized in the literature but needs more empirical exploration in peri-urban contexts where power imbalances play out more strongly due to urbanization drivers. We documented the actor configurations in the peri-urban environment of a watershed PES in Curitiba and conducted a Social Network Analysis (SNA) to enhance our analysis with a power layer. The analysis points to access advantages of powerful urban stakeholders to promote the commoditization of nature through PES, lacking stakeholder engagement which amplifies inequalities in peri-urban territories. In Brazil’s current political scenario the neglect of environmental institutions shows increasing effects on conservation.
KW - Institutional arrangements
KW - Institutional robustness
KW - Payment for ecosystem services
KW - Social network analysis
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85147718340&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1590/1809-4422ASOC20210030R1VU2022L4AO
DO - 10.1590/1809-4422ASOC20210030R1VU2022L4AO
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85147718340
SN - 1414-753X
VL - 25
SP - 1
JO - Ambiente e Sociedade
JF - Ambiente e Sociedade
M1 - 00301
ER -
