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FORUM
Social Dimensions of Market-based Environmental Incentives
When: 18-19 November 2010
Where: Theatrette, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory,
Conacher Street, Fannie Bay, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
Market-based incentives (MBIs) are proliferating in many countries as tools for achieving environmental objectives, including biodiversity conservation, water protection, landscape management, carbon sequestration, forest conservation, and others. Policy-makers often believe that MBIs achieve environmental objectives more cost effectively than other policy tools. MBI schemes seek to encourage a range of players, but particularly landowners and land managers, to actively protect and enhance the natural assets that deliver ecosystem services to humanity. Because of limited market opportunities, in many cases these schemes tend to be provided by government on behalf of potential market participants and the community at large. MBI schemes may fit under generic labels like Emissions Trading Schemes (ETS), Payments for Environmental Services (PES), Reducing Emissions from De-forestation and forest Degradation (REDD), and land stewardship initiatives.
MBIs tend to be evaluated against economic/financial and environmental criteria. However, they also have important social implications, for example by providing:
- income diversification opportunities for farming households and therefore new livelihoods for primary producers
- new economic opportunities for indigenous communities in return for the provision of environmental services, thereby helping to reduce poverty and dependence on social welfare
- alternative income sources in rural and remote regions, thereby helping to retain rural populations and diversify rural economies, particularly in areas where there are few alternative income sources available.
Why this forum?
This forum seeks to explore the social benefits, intended or unintended, of MBIs. We want to review the extent to which MBIs have been and are being employed as social policy tools in various contexts, what challenges achieving relevant social policy objectives pose, what trade-offs arise, and whether and how tensions can be resolved.
We are particularly interested in contributions that:
- review environmental policy and incentive-based schemes through the social policy lens
- provide empirical evidence that demonstrates social outcomes together with economic and environmental aspects of MBIs.
We will have speakers from Europe, North America, Asia and Australia reflecting on a suite of MBI applications across many countries. Through this we hope to provide guidance about whether achieving the twin goals of environmental and social policy through these schemes is possible and, if so, how we can improve their effectiveness in achieving intended multiple outcomes.
We intend to publish the contributions as a special journal edition.
Program
DAY 1 – Thursday 18 November 2010 |
8.30 – 9.00 |
Registration – foyer of the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory |
9.00 – 9.15 |
Welcome to Country by Donna Jackon, Representative of the Larrakia Nation, Traditional Owners of the Darwin area
Welcome by Professor Steve Larkin, Pro Vice-Chancellor Indigenous Leadership, Charles Darwin University
Introduction by Forum Convenor, Professor Romy Greiner, Professor of Tropical Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University |
9.15 – 10.00 |
Professor Owen Stanley, Professor of Natural Resources and Community, and Professor Romy Greiner, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, NT, Australia
More than just money for conservation: the wellbeing benefits of providing environmental services |
10.00 – 10.45 |
Dr Amy Daniels, United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Research and Development, Washington DC, United States
Understanding the impacts of Costa Rica’s Payments for Environmental Services: are we asking the right questions? |
10.45 – 11.15 |
Morning tea |
11.15 – 12.00 |
Dr Paul Courtney, Reader in Rural Economy and Society, Countryside and Community Research Institute, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Socio-economic impacts and benefits of agri-environment schemes in England |
12.00 – 12.45 |
Professor Brent Swallow, Departmental Chair, Department of Rural Economy, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Social capital and payments for carbon sequestration services: contrasting experiences from Africa and Alberta |
12.45 – 13.45 |
Lunch – Cornucopia Museum Café |
13.45 – 14.30 |
Simon Dawkins, General Manager, The Oil Mallee Association of Australia Inc., Fremantle, WA, and Professor Richard Harper, Murdoch University, WA, Australia
‘Oil and water can mix’: the evolution of the oil mallee project as a prominent innovator in carbon sequestration and bioenergy methodologies and the emergence of both anticipated and novel opportunities and threats to regional social and environmental sustainability (title to be confirmed) |
14.30 – 15.15 |
Dr Sango Mahanty, Helen Suich and Associate Professor Luca Tacconi, Resource Management in Asia–Pacific Program, Crawford School of Economics and Government, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Unravelling tenure in environmental service schemes |
15.15 – 16.45 |
Afternoon tea |
15.45 – 16.30 |
Dr Hoang Minh Ha, Vietnam Country Coordinator, World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) Vietnam; Peter Akong Minang, Alternative to Slash and Burn (ASB)/ICRAF Nairobi; Meine van Noordwijk, ICRAF Indonesia; and Do Trong Hoan, ICRAF Vietnam
Can REDD payment alone protect the forest? |
16.30 – 17.15 |
Leimona Beria, Environmental Systems Analysis, World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), Bogor, Indonesia and Wageningen University and Research, The Netherlands, and Mr Luis Gamez, Publlic Utilities Company of Heredia, Costa Rica
Sustaining and escalating Payment for Environmental Services: lessons from Indonesia and Costa Rica |
17.15 – 17.45 |
Discussion session – two discussants to report back on day’s session |
From 18.00 |
Forum Dinner at Pee Wee’s at the Point, Darwin |
DAY 2 – Friday 19 November 2010 |
9.00 – 9.45 |
Dr Charlie Zammit, Assistant Secretary, Australian Government Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Landowners and conservation markets: social benefits from two commonwealth programs |
9.45 –10.30 |
Julian Gorman, Research Fellow, School for Environmental Research, and Associate Professor Ram Vemuri, Faculty of Law, Business and Arts, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, NT, Australia
Exploring the social implications of PES in remote Indigenous communities of the Northern Territory, Australia |
10.30 – 11.00 |
Morning tea |
11.00 – 11.45 |
Katie Moon, PhD candidate, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Qld, Australia
Why some landholders choose not to participate in formal conservation programs? |
11.45 – 12.30 |
Dr Meine van Noordwijk, Chief Science Advisor, and Leimona Beria, Environmental Systems Analysis, World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), Bogor, Indonesia
Principles for fairness and efficiency in enhancing environmental services in Asia: payments, compensation, or co-investment? |
12.30 - 13.30 |
Lunch – Cornucopia Museum Café |
13.30 – 14.15 |
Professor Stewart Lockie, School of Sociology, Research School of Social Sciences, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Ecosystem services, market incentives and private property: conditions for sustained social and ecological benefits |
14.15 – 15.00 |
Ken Moore, Acting General Manager, National Rural Issues, Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation (RIRDC), Canberra, ACT, Australia
Views of a purchaser of MBI research – future perspectives |
15.00 – 15.30 |
Afternoon tea |
15.30 – 16.30 |
Discussion session – each speaker to reflect on key learnings (2–3 mins each)
Forum outcomes to be developed (special journal edition, possibilities for joint papers and collaborations) |
16.45 – 17.00 |
Forum close – Professor Romy Greiner, Professor of Tropical Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University |
From 18.00 |
Informal arrangements – to be advised |
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For more information contact Romy Greiner
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