The paper seeks to advance our understanding of the extent to which the use of economic
incentives can undermine (“crowd out”) or reinforce (“crowd in”) people's intrinsic …

Abstract Research on Payments for Environmental Services has only recently started to pay
attention to motivation" crowding", ie the effect that such rewards might have on either …

We contribute to the growing body of literature on the ecological and socio-psychological
impacts of providing payments as rewards for conservation. We conducted a systematic …

This paper examines how motivation, crowding and social image affect environmental
conservation decisions. An artefactual field experiment conducted in Bolivia is used to …

It has been hypothesized that the effectiveness of payments for ecosystem services (PES)
programs could, in some cases, be undermined by motivational crowding out, the …

Abstract Payments for Environmental Services (PES) implemented in forest-dependent
subsistence-based economies can involve significant restrictions on the traditional use of …

In conservation projects in and around protected areas (PAs), a suite of policy instruments
are used to promote conservation behavior in local people. Few studies have related …

Globally, there is an increasing level of funding targeted to pay farmers and rural
communities for the provision of ecosystem services, for example through Payments for …

Nature is perceived and valued in many different ways. Often, the types of values that are the
most important to people depend on how they cognitively frame desirable human–nature …

We used a quasi-experimental research design to study the extent of motivational crowding
in a recent sustainable development intervention in northern India. The project provided …