Conservation versus Equity: Can Payments for Environmental Services Achieve Both?
通过实地实验，比较了两种环境服务付费方案（统一费率与基于罗尔斯最大最小原则的再分配方案）对保护效果和收入公平的影响，发现再分配方案能在不牺牲保护效果的前提下改善低收入参与者的收入分配。
Based on a framed field experiment, we investigate the trade-off between conservation and equity in the use of payments for environmental services (PES). We compare the effects of two PES schemes that implicitly incorporate different distributive justice principles: a flat-rate payment per biophysical unit conserved and a redistributive payment based on the Rawls maxi-min distributional principle. The main findings indicate that the introduction of a redistributive scheme can function as a multipurpose instrument. Under the assumed condition that participants with lower endowments face higher opportunity costs of conservation, it realigns the income distribution in favor of low-endowed participants without compromising conservation outcomes. <i></i>