tailieunhanh - Payments For Environmental Services In Vietnam: Assessing An Economic Approach To Sustainable Forest Management

This study looks at whether Vietnam could adopt the Payment for Environmental Services (PES) approach as part of its national conservation strategy. Using a pilot study in the country’s uplands, it investigates how such a scheme might run and assesses its impact on the environment and on the local people’s livelihoods. Through a review of current Vietnamese conservation practice, it assesses the barriers to the adoption of such schemes and the factors that might encourage their implementation | Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia 22 Cross Street 02-55 South Bridge Court Singapore 048421 Tel 65 6438 7877 Fax 65 6438 4844 E-mail eepsea@ Web site R E S E A R C H R E P O R T No. 2006-RR3 Payments For Environmental Services In Vietnam Assessing An Economic Approach To Sustainable Forest Management Bui Dung The and Hong Bich Ngoc Dept of Agricultural Environmental Economics College of Economics Hue University 100 Phung Hung Hue City Vietnam buidungthe@ buidungthe@yahoo. com This study looks at whether Vietnam could adopt the Payment for Environmental Services PES approach as part of its national conservation strategy. Using a pilot study in the country s uplands it investigates how such a scheme might run and assesses its impact on the environment and on the local people s livelihoods. Through a review of current Vietnamese conservation practice it assesses the barriers to the adoption of such schemes and the factors that might encourage their implementation. Results are promising. Interest and involvement in the pilot scheme was quite high despite the experiment s limited duration. The PES trial also had positive environmental impacts including a reduction in soil erosion and the extraction of natural forest products. Because of a number of barriers to PES implementation the study recommends that further PES trials be run to gain more experience and knowledge before large-scale implementation is tried in Vietnam. Published by the Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia EEPSEA 22 Cross Street 02-55 South Bridge Court Singapore 048421 tel 65-6438 7877 fax 65-6438 4844 email eepsea@ EEPSEA Research Reports are the outputs of research projects supported by the Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia. All have been peer reviewed and edited. In some cases longer versions may be obtained from the author s . The key findings of most EEPSEA Research Reports are condensed