Elizabeth Shapiro-Garza

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors trace the complex processes through which this ideal type conceptualization of market-efficient environmental policy was subverted and the practice altered to more closely fit national interests, rural realities and alternative conceptions of the value of socio-nature.

TL;DR: The case of Mexico's federal Payments for Hydrological Services program (PSAH) is used to illustrate the importance of adaptive management for improving program targeting and over time, adaptive changes in the program's criteria for eligibility and selection led to increased enrollment of land scoring high on both dimensions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the impacts of conditioning on additionality within a number of collective ecosystem services (PES) designs were studied. But the authors focused on the impact of group participation in contract design and a coordination mechanism.

TL;DR: The authors argue that a focus on the actions of local actors is key to understanding how and why such governmentality fails or succeeds in performing as theorized, and argue that an actor-oriented, "weak theory" approach permits PES praxis to inform knowledge generation.