Hamm, J. orcid.org/0000-0003-4512-3883, Holmes, G. and Martin-Ortega, J. (2023) The importance of equity in payments to encourage coexistence with large mammals. Conservation Biology. ISSN 0888-8892
Abstract
Large mammals often impose significant costs such as livestock depredation or crop foraging on rural communities, and this can lead to the retaliatory killing of threatened wildlife populations. One conservation approach – payments to encourage coexistence (PEC) – aims to reduce these costs through financial mechanisms such as compensation, insurance, revenue-sharing, and conservation performance payments. Little is known about the equitability of PEC, however, despite its moral and instrumental importance, prevalence as a conservation approach, and the fact that other financial tools for conservation are often inequitable. Here, using examples from the literature, we first demonstrate the capability of PEC – as currently perceived and implemented – to be inequitable. We then provide three recommendations to improve the equitability of current and future schemes. These include the co-operative design of schemes that promote compensatory equity, the greater consideration of conservation performance payments, and changing the international model for funding PEC in order to reduce global coexistence inequalities. New and existing programmes must address issues of equitability across scales, to ensure that conservation efforts are not undermined by diminished social legitimacy.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Hamm, J., Holmes, G., & Martin-Ortega, J. (2023). The importance of equity in payments to encourage coexistence with large mammals. Conservation Biology, 00, 00–00. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.14207, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.14207. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions. This article may not be enhanced, enriched or otherwise transformed into a derivative work, without express permission from Wiley or by statutory rights under applicable legislation. Copyright notices must not be removed, obscured or modified. The article must be linked to Wiley’s version of record on Wiley Online Library and any embedding, framing or otherwise making available the article or pages thereof by third parties from platforms, services and websites other than Wiley Online Library must be prohibited. |
Keywords: | Compensation, conservation, incentives, insurance, legitimacy, performance payments, wildlife |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > School of Earth and Environment (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 20 Oct 2023 09:21 |
Last Modified: | 19 Oct 2024 00:13 |
Published Version: | https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10... |
Status: | Published online |
Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/cobi.14207 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:204385 |