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Acceptance of a Payment for Ecosystem Services Scheme: The Decisive Influence of Collective Action

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  • Jean-Pierre Del Corso
  • Thi Dieu Phuong Geneviève Nguyen
  • Charilaos Kephaliacos

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As scholars have shown, acceptance is key to the success of Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) scheme. While many studies adopt a static cost-benefit perspective, few address the social process leading to acceptance. Drawing on Suchman (1995), this article examines the legitimacy process underlying the acceptance of a PES in agriculture. In particular, the role of collective action in the legitimisation process is analysed, using a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods of discourse analysis. Data from an agro-environmental PES scheme in France on water quality shows that acceptance depends on the normative and cognitive legitimacy that actors confer upon a public policy.

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  • Jean-Pierre Del Corso & Thi Dieu Phuong Geneviève Nguyen & Charilaos Kephaliacos, 2017. "Acceptance of a Payment for Ecosystem Services Scheme: The Decisive Influence of Collective Action," Environmental Values, White Horse Press, vol. 26(2), pages 177-202, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:env:journl:ev26:ev2608
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    Keywords

    Payment for ecosystem services; EU Water Framework Directive; collective action; legitimacy; discourse analysis;
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    JEL classification:

    • O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
    • Q25 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation - - - Water
    • Q28 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation - - - Government Policy

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