Improving payments for ecosystem services efficacy

该项目旨在提高森林砍伐风险高的环境中生态系统服务付费（PES）计划的成本效益。该项目在乌干达进行了一项实地试验，以确定监测遵守情况和确定支付水平的有效方法。该项目旨在审查方案的影响是否因毁林而受到破坏，以及方案设计中是否存在固有的减贫权衡。该项目预计将确定从该计划中登记的土地放弃生产的成本，这在很大程度上是未知的。研究结果将支持创造低成本技术的努力，以解决保护挑战，并协助在澳大利亚和国际环境中有效分配稀缺资源。

This project aims to improve the cost-effectiveness of payments for ecosystem services (PES) programs in settings where deforestation risk is high. The project introduces a field experiment in Uganda in order to determine effective methods for monitoring compliance and setting payment levels. The project intends to examine whether program impacts are undermined by displacement of deforestation and if there are poverty reduction trade-offs inherent in program design. The project expects to establish the costs of foregone production from land enrolled in the program, which are largely unknown. The findings will support efforts to create low cost technologies to solve conservation challenges and assist with the efficient allocation of scarce resources for environmental protection in both Australian and international contexts.