Understanding Smallholder Participation in Payments for Ecosystem Services: the Case of Costa Rica
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DOI: 10.1007/s10745-016-9886-x
Abstract: This paper uses household survey data to examine factors associated with smallholder households that enroll in Costa Rica’s longstanding payments for ecosystem services (PES) program. To date, most evaluations of this sort have focused on… read more here.
Keywords: payments ecosystem; ecosystem services; costa rica;
Institutional challenges for corporate participation in payments for ecosystem services (PES): insights from Southeast Asia
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DOI: 10.1007/s11625-018-0569-y
Abstract: Environmental sustainability relies on the adequate financing of biodiversity conservation—increasingly from the private sector. Meanwhile, corporate sustainability relies on the effective management of natural capital and ecosystem services used in production. Payments for ecosystem services… read more here.
Keywords: participation; institutional challenges; services pes; ecosystem ... See more keywords
Payments for ecosystem services and agricultural intensification: Evidence from a choice experiment on deforestation in Zambia
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2017.05.024
Abstract: Agriculture is considered to be one of the major drivers of deforestation worldwide. In developing countries in particular this process is driven by small-scale agriculture. At the same time, many African governments aim to increase… read more here.
Keywords: agriculture; evidence; choice experiment; ecosystem services ... See more keywords
The global status and trends of Payments for Ecosystem Services
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DOI: 10.1038/s41893-018-0033-0
Abstract: Recent decades have witnessed a considerable increase in Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES)—programmes that exchange value for land management practices intended to provide or ensure ecosystem services—with over 550 active programmes around the globe and… read more here.
Keywords: status trends; payments ecosystem; global status; ecosystem services ... See more keywords
Revealing pathways from payments for ecosystem services to socioeconomic outcomes
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DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aao6652
Abstract: Multiple pathways lead to unexpected outcomes of conservation programs. Payments for ecosystem services (PES) programs have been widely implemented as a promising tool to conserve ecosystems while facilitating socioeconomic development. However, the underlying pathways (or… read more here.
Keywords: socioeconomic outcomes; pes programs; ecosystem services; payments ecosystem ... See more keywords
Economic Valuation of Conservation of Inholdings in Protected Areas for the Institution of Payments for Ecosystem Services
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DOI: 10.3390/f10121122
Abstract: Ecosystem services, as public goods, are often undersupplied because private markets do not fully take into account the social cost of production. To alleviate the concern about this imbalance situation, payments for ecosystem services (PES)… read more here.
Keywords: protected areas; conservation inholdings; conservation; ecosystem services ... See more keywords
How Do Stakeholders Working on the Forest–Water Nexus Perceive Payments for Ecosystem Services?
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DOI: 10.3390/f11010012
Abstract: Nowadays, great emphasis is placed on the relationship between forest and water because forests are considered as substantial sources of many water ecosystem services. The aim of this paper is to analyze the stakeholder opinions… read more here.
Keywords: water; ecosystem services; payments ecosystem; forest water ... See more keywords
Corporate Payments for Ecosystem Services in Theory and Practice: Links to Economics, Business, and Sustainability
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DOI: 10.3390/su13158307
Abstract: Few Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) schemes are financed voluntarily by corporations. This is perhaps unsurprising, given that limited literature on the theory and practice of PES has a dedicated focus on businesses. This article… read more here.
Keywords: business; theory practice; sustainability; economics ... See more keywords
Asset-building payments for ecosystem services: assessing landowner perceptions of reforestation incentives in Lebanon
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DOI: 10.5424/fs/2017262-10325
Abstract: Aim of study: Incentivising landowners to supply ecosystem services remains challenging, especially when this requires long-term investments such as reforestation. We investigated how landowners perceive, and would respond to, distinct types of incentives for planting… read more here.
Keywords: landowner perceptions; results based; ecosystem services; payments ecosystem ... See more keywords
Feedback of telecoupling: the case of a payments for ecosystem services program
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DOI: 10.5751/es-10140-230245
Abstract: Around the globe, previously isolated rural areas are increasingly connected with other distant places (e.g., cities) by telecouplings (i.e., environmental and socioeconomic interactions over distances) such as payments for ecosystem services (PES) programs, labor migration,… read more here.
Keywords: program; feedback; gtgp; ecosystem services ... See more keywords