Diagnosis and Assessment of Environmental Preservation’s Efficiency in the State of Mato Grosso do Sul after the Inclusion of Payment for Environmental Services

Abstract

This study aims at gathering and analyzing information on the compliance of policies of identification, maintenance, conservation and preservation of the environment and natural resources of the State, and also at assessing reciprocity between Environmental Services Payment (ESP) and the ecological environmental preservation in territorial areas of conservation units in the municipalities, based on the analysis of information from the Protected Areas’ System from the Mato Grosso do Sul’s Environmental Institute (IMASUL) from 2002 to 2014. The data enrollment analysis (DEA) was applied over the data obtained from protected areas of each municipality, enabling the positioning of the satisfactory efficiency conditions of conservation scores and profiling the new paradigm for the municipal actions against deployment, maintenance, recognition and evolution of new units in Mato Grosso do Sul. The importance of the values passed on to the Ecological ICMS reflects itself on the commitment of the municipalities in relation to the establishment of Protected Areas (PAs). Once in 2002, there were 111 protected areas in 52 municipalities of the state, adding up a transfer of $ 14,853,000; then in 2014, there were 169 protected areas in 66 municipalities and a total wire of $ 68,080,000. The application of data enrollment analysis (DEA) on social, economic and environmental indicators of each municipality data enabled protected areas to place efficient scores in satisfactory conditions in these municipalities in the state of MS, and profiling a new paradigm on municipal actions against deployment, maintenance and recognition of PAs. This study shows the inefficiency of proactive actions over management and development of environmental conservation policies, and that in a few cases there was some level of efficiency concentrated in certain years, which did not remain in subsequent periods, reinforcing the lack of long term strategies for conservation of natural resources in the state.