This article proposes a framework for evaluating the development and evolution of economic instruments for environmental conservation through the examination of their design and the interactional and structural aspects of their implementation. The framework is applied to comparatively describe the historical evolution of the world's longest-running ecological fiscal transfer (EFT) scheme in two Brazilian sites. Results show that while legislative aspects of programme design, such as linkages and flexibility, are crucial for performance, interactional and structural characteristics during implementation, such as capacity, knowledge-sharing and transparency, can be determining factors in how the programme functions at the municipal level. Policy recommendations are provided for the development of this type of programme elsewhere. Results contribute towards the conceptual understanding of EFTs, an under-utilised mechanism with great potential for a role in conservation policy mixes.

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分析生态财政转移的框架：来自巴西大西洋森林的案例研究

本文提出了一个框架，通过检查其设计及其实施的相互作用和结构方面来评估环境保护经济工具的发展和演变。该框架用于比较描述世界上运行时间最长的生态财政转移（EFT）计划在巴西两个地点的历史演变。结果表明，虽然项目设计的立法方面，如联系和灵活性，对绩效至关重要，但实施过程中的互动和结构特征，如能力、知识共享和透明度，可能是项目在市政部门运作方式的决定因素等级。为其他地方开发此类计划提供了政策建议。