Biodiversity offsets and payments for environmental services: Clarifying the family ties
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2019.106428
Abstract: Biodiversity Offsets (BO) and Payments for Environmental Services (PES) are sometimes used interchangeably to characterize innovative economic tools to conserve or restore biodiversity, ecosystems, or their services. We assume that a confusion between PES and… read more here.
Keywords: environmental services; payments environmental; biodiversity; biodiversity offsets ... See more keywords
Promotion of afforestation in New Zealand’s marginal agricultural lands through payments for environmental services
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoser.2020.101212
Abstract: Abstract Several payments for environmental services (PES) schemes to promote large-scale afforestation are currently operational in New Zealand. In addition, the country has the only national greenhouse gas (GHG) Emissions Trading Scheme centred on forest… read more here.
Keywords: new zealand; environmental services; payments environmental; agricultural lands ... See more keywords
‘Partial’ participation in Payments for Environmental Services (PES): Land enrolment and forest loss in the Mexican Lacandona Rainforest
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DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2019.04.011
Abstract: Payments for Environmental Services (PES) mushroomed since the late 1990s as a key strategy to curb forest loss and degradation. PES typically provide conditional incentives for the conservation of standing forests, often in short-term and… read more here.
Keywords: services pes; mexican lacandona; payments environmental; loss ... See more keywords
Payments for Environmental Services: Past Performance and Pending Potentials
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DOI: 10.1146/annurev-resource-100518-094206
Abstract: We develop a theory of change for payments for environmental services (PES) to review their imminent strengths and weaknesses in light of a growing body of impact evaluation studies. We show that P... read more here.
Keywords: services past; past performance; environmental services; performance pending ... See more keywords
Assessing the Permanence of Land-Use Change Induced by Payments for Environmental Services: Evidence From Nicaragua
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DOI: 10.1177/1940082920922676
Abstract: Gains achieved by conservation interventions such as payments for environmental services (PES) may be lost upon termination of the program, a problem known as permanence. However, there have been few efforts to evaluate the permanence… read more here.
Keywords: program; land; payments environmental; permanence ... See more keywords