Publications
2024
2023
2022
2020
2019
2017
2016
- Delacote, P., L’Horty, T., Kontoleon, A. et al. (2024). Strong transparency required for carbon credit mechanisms. Nat Sustain. (lien - link)
2023
- Lapierre, M., Le Velly, G., Bougherara, D., Préget, R., & Sauquet, A. (2023). Designing Agri-Environmental Schemes to cope with uncertainty. Ecological Economics, 203, 107610. (lien - link)
2022
- Delacote, P., Le Velly G., & Simonet, G. (2022). Revisiting the location bias and additionality of REDD+ projects: the role of project proponents status and certification. Resource and Energy Economics, 67, 101277. (lien - link)
2020
- Tritsch, I, Le Velly G, Mertens, B, Meyfroidt, P, Sannier, C, Makak, J. S., & Houngbedji, K (2020). Do forest-management plans and FSC certification help avoid deforestation in the Congo Basin? Ecological Economics, 175, 106660. (lien - link)
2019
- Chervier C, Le Velly G & Ezzine de Blas D (2019). When the Implementation of Payments for Biodiversity Conservation Leads to Motivation Crowding-out: A Case Study From the Cardamoms Forests, Cambodia. Ecological Economics 156, 499-510 (lien - link)
2017
- A Karsenty, S Aubert, L Brimont, S Desbureaux, C Dutilly, D Ezzine de Blas and Le Velly G (2017), The economic and legal sides of additionality in Payments for Environmental Services, Environmental Policy and Governance. 27, 422–435. doi: 10.1002/eet.1770. (lien - link)
- Le Velly G, Sauquet A & Cortina-Villar S (2017). PES Impact and Leakages over Several Cohorts: The Case of the PSA-H in Yucatan, Mexico. Land Economics. May 1, 2017 vol. 93 no.2 230-257 (lien -link)
2016
- Ezzine-de-Blas D., Dutilly C., Lara-Pulido J. A., Le Velly G., & Guevara-Sanginés, A. (2016). Payments for Environmental Services in a Policymix: Spatial and Temporal Articulation in Mexico. PLoS One, 11(4), e0152514. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0152514 (lien - link)
- Le Velly G. & Dutilly C (2016). Evaluating Payments for Environmental Services: Methodological Challenges. PLoS ONE 11(2): e0149374. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0149374 (lien -link)
Working papers
2021
2015
- Lapierre, M., G. Le Velly, D. Bougherara, R., and A. Sauquet. Designing Agri-Environmental Schemes to cope with uncertainty. CEE-M Working Paper 2021-13 (lien - link)
2015
- G. Le Velly, C. Dutilly, D. Ezzine de Blas and C. Fernandez (2015). PES as compensation ? Redistribution of payments for forest conservation in Mexican common forests. Etudes et Documents, n°28, CERDI. (lien - link)
PhD Dissertation
- The effectiveness of payments for environmental services in Mexican Community Forests (lien - link):
Sous la direction de - Supervisor: Catherine Araujo-Bonjean
Défendue le 15 Juin 2015 - Defended on June 15th 2015
Jury: Pascale Combes-Motel, Céline Dutilly, Serge Garcia, Alain Karsenty, Jean-Michel Salles
Summary: During recent years, Payments for Environmental Services (PES) have become a popular forest conservation instrument and numerous new schemes have emerged around the world, particularly in developing countries. Nevertheless, despite a growing body of academic literature on the topic, little remains known of the effectiveness of PES schemes in reducing deforestation. This dissertation contributes to the literature with a specific focus on the impact of a federal Mexican PES scheme: the PSA-H. We begin with a general introduction retracing the emergence of PES and the current academic debates surrounding the mechanism. Chapter 2 introduces the particularity of the land tenure system in Mexico, the country's environmental policies and the PSA-H scheme and presents the data used in our empirical analysis. Chapter 3 looks at impact evaluation methodologies and how they have been used in the context of forest conservation instruments. We show that PES schemes are very complex treatment and that evaluating their impact using classic impact evaluation techniques requires many adjustments. After discussing these challenges, we propose three empirical essays based on primary and secondary data. Chapter 4 presents a new methodology allowing us to estimate the additionality and leakages of the PSA-H in our study area. Our results provide evidence that leakages can undermine PES effectiveness. Chapter 5 studies how land use can influence the allocation of PES payments within the beneficiary community. Using original survey data, our results show that, despite the attempts of the Mexican authorities to design the PES scheme as compensation for avoiding deforestation, payments have been redistributed as a reward for existing conservation. The deforesting agents receive less remuneration than other recipients, which shows that the polluter-paid principle at the origin of the Coasean notion of PES has not been appropriated. Chapter 6 studies the interactions between the PSA-H and Mexico's Community forest enterprises (CFEs) which are run by the communities and implement sustainable extraction activities in community forests. In a search for a relevant policy mix, it seems crucial to know how they interact with the PSA-H. The results of our empirical analysis show that the PSA-H can help these enterprises to develop and stabilize over time. Finally, in the conclusion, we discuss the implications of the empirical essays for the design of PES schemes and future research.
Work in progress
- Economic and regulatory incentives for sustainable agriculture in Europe (joint with A. Sauquet)
- Protected Areas Downgrading, Downsizing and Degazettement (joint with D. Keles, P. Delacote, R. Golden Kroner, A. Pfaff and M. Mascia)