TITLE:
Valuation and Payment for Socio-Environmental Services in the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve, Amazon, Brazil
AUTHORS:
Raimundo Cláudio Gomes Maciel, João Alfredo Carvalho Mangabeira, Lucas Ferreira Lima, Ademar Ribeiro Romeiro, Oleides Francisca de Oliveira, Viviane Farias Silva, Fernando Nauffal Filho, Guilherme Thomazi
KEYWORDS:
Rural Family Production, Social Reproduction, Socio-Environmental Valuation, Chico Mendes RESEX, Payment for Socio-Environmental Services (PSES)
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Environmental Protection,
Vol.15 No.12,
December
30,
2024
ABSTRACT: In the contemporary world, there are three interconnected global environmental crises (climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution). The common thread is the unsustainable pattern of production and consumption, which leads to international and local socio-environmental injustices. Seeking environmental justice in Brazil, the success of the rubber tapper social movement stands out, culminating in the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve (RESEX) implementation in the Brazilian Amazon. However, the residents have struggled to generate income to help their families’ social reproduction. Conventional payment instruments for environmental services have failed to remunerate the socio-environmental attributes of sustainable products adequately. This paper aims to carry out a socio-environmental economic-ecological valuation of the main extractive products of the RESEX in 2021/2022. To this end, a methodology calculates the cost of social reproduction of rural family production, being a non-market price index reference for monetary valuation. The results indicate the acceptability of the socio-environmental valuation of native rubber and Brazil nuts, as they can guarantee environmental conservation, improve the families’ well-being with adequate income for their social reproduction, as well as value attributes outside the market, which helps in the fight against further expropriation or enclosure of rural families in the Amazon.