DESIGNING REDD+ SCHEMES WHEN FOREST USERS ARENOT FOREST LANDOWNERS: EVIDENCE FROM ASURVEY-BASED EXPERIMENT IN KENYA

Working Paper Series Department of Economics

University of Verona

DESIGNING REDD+ SCHEMES WHEN FOREST USERS ARE NOT FOREST LANDOWNERS: EVIDENCE FROM A

SURVEY-BASED EXPERIMENT IN KENYA

Marcella Veronesi, Tim Schloendorn, Astrid Zabel, Stefanie Engel

WP Number: 15 April 2012

ISSN: 2036-2919 (paper), 2036-4679 (online)

Designing REDD+ schemes when forest users are not forest landowners:

Evidence from a survey-based experiment in Kenya

Citation:

Veronesi, M., T. Reutemann, A. Zabel, S. Engel (2015): “Designing REDD+ Schemes When Forest Users Are Not Forest Landowners: Evidence from a Survey-Based Experiment in Kenya,”

Ecological Economics 116: 46-57.

This article was previously circulated as “Designing REDD+ Schemes to Address Permanence Concerns: Empirical Evidence from Kenya.”

Marcella Veronesi,*

Tim Reutemann,^a Astrid Zabel,^b Stefanie Engel^c

* Corresponding author: Department of Economics, University of Verona, and Institute for

Environmental Decisions, ETH Zurich. Address for correspondence: Vicolo Campofiore 2, 37129 Verona, Italy. Fax: +39 045 802 8529. Phone: +39 045 842 5453; marcella.veronesi@univr.it.

a ETH Zurich, Institute for Environmental Decisions, Universitätstrasse 22, 8096 Zurich, Switzerland; tim.reutemann@usys.ethz.ch.

b Bern University of Applied Sciences, School of Agricultural, Forest, and Food Sciences, Laenggasse 85, 3052 Zollikofen, Switzerland; astrid.zabel@bfh.ch.

c University of Osnabrueck, Institute for Environmental Systems Research, Barbarastrasse 12, 49076 Osnabrück, Germany, stefanie.engel@uos.de.