PES What a Mess? An Analysis of the Position of Environmental Professionals in the Conceptual Debate on Payments for Ecosystem Services
PES What a Mess? An Analysis of the Position of Environmental Professionals in the Conceptual Debate on Payments for Ecosystem Services
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PES 什么乱七八糟的？
DOI：
10.1016/j.ecolecon.2018.08.001
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发表时间：
2018
影响因子：
7
通讯作者：
K. Waylen
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作者：
J. Martin;K. Waylen
生态系统服务付费（PES）在全球范围内受到政府和非政府组织的推动，正变得越来越普遍。除此之外，关于PES应该如何概念化和定义的学术辩论已经展开。通过对这一主题的环境专业人士的首次调查，我们探讨了他们在英国这一概念辩论中的立场。我们的研究表明，关键学术辩论的所有方面都反映在环境专业人士的观点中，他们的理解范围表明，没有任何观点是主导的或没有争议的。期望所有人共享一个“完美”的PES定义可能既没有必要也不可行。然而，目前这个术语涉及范围非常广，随着PES的进一步实施，可能会产生摩擦。这有可能使PES成为一个“混乱”，从中很难得出关于它们是否、何时以及为什么是有用工具的见解。至关重要的是，那些辩论和提出PES概念的人更密切地考虑专业人员参与并将其应用作为抽象结构的复杂过程。
Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) are becoming increasingly widespread as they are being promoted by government and non-governmental organisations across the globe. Alongside this, an academic debate has unfolded regarding how PES ought to be conceptualized and defined. Using the first survey of environmental professionals on this topic, we explore their position in this conceptual debate in the UK. Our study shows that all aspects of the key academic debates are reflected in the views of environmental professionals, whose range of understandings suggests no viewpoint is either dominant or uncontested. Expecting all to share a single 'perfect' definition of PES may be neither necessary nor feasible. However, at present this term invokes a very wide range of ideas that may generate frictions as PES are further implemented. This risks PES becoming a ‘mess’ from which few insights can be derived as to whether, when and why they are useful instruments. It essential that those debating and proposing PES concepts more closely consider the complex processes by which professionals engage with and shape its application as an abstract construct.