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Elizabeth Shapiro - Garza

Elizabeth Shapiro - Garza

Associate Professor of the Practice of Environmental Policy and Management in the Division of Environmental Social Systems
Environmental Social Systems
elizabeth.shapiro@duke.edu
PO Box 90328, Durham, NC 27708
Box 90328, 4103 Environment Hall, Durham, NC 27708

Featured Works

A participatory framework for feasibility assessments of climate change resilience strategies for smallholders: lessons from coffee cooperatives in Latin America

Journal article International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability · January 2, 2020 Featured Publication Coffee farmers are already experiencing the impacts of climate change, yet recommended resilience strategies are often cost-prohibitive for smallholder producers and/or maladapted to local conditions and contexts. We collaborated with smallholder coffee co ... Full text Open Access Cite

Beyond Market Logics: Payments for Ecosystem Services as Alternative Development Practices in the Global South

Journal article Development and Change · January 2020 Featured Publication ABSTRACTPayments for Ecosystem Services (PES) initiatives, which provide financial incentives for management practices thought to increase the production of environmental benefits, have expanded across the global South sinc ... Full text Open Access Cite

An Alternative Theorization of Payments for Ecosystem Services from Mexico: Origins and Influence

Journal article Development and Change · January 2020 Featured Publication ABSTRACTThe national Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) programmes of Mexico were originally based on the neoclassical economic theory that conceptualized ecosystems as factories whose various outputs can be quantified a ... Full text Open Access Cite

Collective PES: More than the sum of individual incentives

Journal article Environmental Science and Policy · December 1, 2019 Featured Publication This study synthesizes findings from studies of the social and behavioral outcomes of collective payment for ecosystem services (PES) programs. The collective PES model is distinct from the conventional PES model in that by working with groups, not individ ... Full text Open Access Cite

Collective Local Payments for ecosystem services: New local PES between groups, sanctions, and prior watershed trust in Mexico

Journal article Water Resources and Economics · October 1, 2019 Featured Publication Payments for ecosystem services (PES) programs are now high in number, if not always in impact. When groups of users pay groups of service providers, establishing PES involves collective action. We study the creation of collective PES institutions, and the ... Full text Open Access Cite

Silencing Agency in Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) by Essentializing a Neoliberal ‘Monster’ Into Being: A Response to Fletcher & Büscher's ‘PES Conceit’

Journal article Ecological Economics · February 1, 2018 Featured Publication In this commentary we respond to Fletcher and Büscher's (2017) recent article in this journal on Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) as neoliberal ‘conceit’. The authors claim that focusing attention on the micro-politics of PES design and implementation ... Full text Open Access Cite

Increasing the impact of collective incentives in payments for ecosystem services

Journal article Journal of Environmental Economics and Management · November 1, 2017 Featured Publication Collective payments for ecosystem services (PES) programs make payments to groups, conditional on specified aggregate land-management outcomes. Such collective contracting may be well suited to settings with communal land tenure or decision-making. Given t ... Full text Open Access Cite

Embedding Carbon Markets: Complicating Commodification of Ecosystem Services in Mexico's Forests

Journal article Annals of the Association of American Geographers · August 9, 2017 Featured Publication Payments for ecosystem services (PES) are increasingly employed to address a range of environmental issues, including biodiversity conservation, watershed protection, and climate change mitigation. PES initiatives have gained momentum since the 1990s, and ... Full text Open Access Cite