Julia P. G. Jones

TL;DR: Results of semi-structured interviews and questionnaires in a lakeside town provide valuable insights into the reasons for the ongoing burning of vegetation in Lac Alaotra and should inform the management actions that are required to protect this globally important wetland.

TL;DR: Analyzing in unprecedented depth both the local costs of conservation, and the compensation distributed under donor policies, it is demonstrated that despite well-intentioned policies, some of the poorest people on the planet are still bearing the cost of forest conservation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce a framework for designing monitoring programs in PES schemes for biodiversity conservation and suggest that decisions must be made concerning the indicators to be used (e.g. species, threats or positive actions), how they will be monitored and how the monitoring information will be used to differentiate payments.

TL;DR: If REDD+ is to deliver additional gains for climate and biodiversity, projects will need to focus on forests with the highest threat to deforestation, which will have cost implications for futureREDD+ implementation.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors estimate CFM impacts on household living standards, as measured by per capita consumption expenditures, in a national-scale analysis in Madagascar that carefully considers alternative explanations for the observed empirical patterns.