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| Article Title | Importance of National Policy and Local Interpretation in Designing Payment for Forest Environmental Services Scheme for the Ta Leng River Basin in Northeast Vietnam | | Author | Dam Viet Bac, Delia Catacutan and Hoang Minh Ha | | Year | 2014 | | Journal Title | Environment and Natural Resources Research | | Institution | Canadian Center of Science and Education | | Volume | 4 | | Issue | 1 | | Pages | 39-53 | | Call Number | JA0513-14 | | Keywords | environmental services, PES mechanism, negotiation, benefit sharing, K factors, Vietnam |
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| The Leng River basin in BacKan province, northwest Vietnam hosts critical natural resources where lessons
learnt from the pilot project of payment for forest environmental services (PFES) in Lam Dong and Son La
provinces can be applied. PFES is broadly defined as an economic instrument that facilitates payments of forest
environmental service flows to forest dwellers. The passage of a national PFES Decree in Vietnam where the
K-factor framework was used to determine the payment level of environmental services created both
opportunities and challenges in the design and implementation of PFES schemes.This paper presents how the
national PFES policy was adapted, and how lessons in the pilot provinces were considered in developing a local
PFES scheme. Important considerations and criteria for determining K-factors to standardize payments for
similar environmental services, as well as the proposed PFES scheme for the Leng River Basin are discussed.
The paper concludes that national policy framework and local interpretation of K-factors are crucially important
in designing a PFES scheme that meets the realistic and pro-poor elements of PES. Finally, a PFES scheme must
have detailed implementing guidelines that are developed with local stakeholders. |
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