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Contesting the market-based nature of Mexico’s national payments for ecosystem services programs: Four sites of articulation and hybridization
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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.About:
This article is published in Geoforum.The article was published on 2013-05-01. It has received 168 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Ecosystem services.read more
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The Routledge Handbook of Political Ecology
TL;DR: The origins of political ecology can be traced back to the early 1970s, when Watts et al. as discussed by the authors defined political ecology as "the production of socio-natures" in the context of political action.
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What factors influence participation in payment for ecosystem services programs? An evaluation of Ecuador's SocioPáramo program
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluate factors facilitating and constraining participation in Ecuador's SocioParamo program, a recently launched PES initiative targeting highland Andean grasslands (paramos).
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Have Ecosystem Services Been Oversold
TL;DR: By illustration with alternatives, it is attempted to show how the ES paradigm has constrained thought, particularly towards the monetization and financialization of nature, even when many ecologists and others oppose this trend.
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Multiple ecosystem services landscape index: a tool for multifunctional landscapes conservation.
TL;DR: The results demonstrated that the MESLI index is a good tool to measure landscape multifunctionality at local scales and is effective evaluating landscapes, distinguishing between municipalities based on ES provision, and identifying the drivers of change and their effects.
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A Brief History of Neoliberalism
TL;DR: The Neoliberal State and Neoliberalism with 'Chinese Characteristics' as mentioned in this paper is an example of the Neoliberal state in the context of Chinese characteristics of Chinese people and its relationship with Chinese culture.
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The New Imperialism
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Natural Capital and Sustainable Development
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TL;DR: In this paper, a minimum necessary condition for sustainability is the maintenance of the total natural capital stock at or above the current level, to be relaxed only when solid evidence can be offered that it is safe to do so.
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Hydrological functions of tropical forests: not seeing the soil for the trees?
TL;DR: In this article, a wide range of available scientific evidence with respect to the influence exerted by the presence or absence of a good forest cover on regional climate (rainfall), total and seasonal water yield (floods, low flows), as well as on different forms of erosion and catchment sediment yield under humid tropical conditions in general and in southeast Asia in particular.