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Decentralized payments for environmental services: The cases of Pimampiro and PROFAFOR in Ecuador
Sven Wunder,Montserrat Albán +1 more
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In this paper, the authors describe and compare the two cases, using a common PES definition and methodology, drawing on both primary interview-based information and secondary data, and find that both schemes have relatively effective in reaching their environmental objectives, in terms of having probably high additionality levels and low leakage effects.About:
This article is published in Ecological Economics.The article was published on 2008-05-01. It has received 339 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Additionality.read more
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Designing payments for environmental services in theory and practice: An overview of the issues
TL;DR: Payments for environmental services (PES) have attracted increasing interest as a mechanism to translate external, non-market values of the environment into real financial incentives for local actors to provide environmental services as mentioned in this paper.
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The history of ecosystem services in economic theory and practice: From early notions to markets and payment schemes
TL;DR: This paper reviewed the historic development of the conceptualization of ecosystem services and examined critical landmarks in economic theory and practice with regard to the incorporation of ecosystem service into markets and payment schemes, concluding that the trend towards monetization and commodification of ecosystems is partly the result of a slow move from the original economic conception of nature's benefits as use values in Classical economics to their conceptualization in terms of exchange values in Neoclassical economics.
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Taking stock: A comparative analysis of payments for environmental services programs in developed and developing countries
TL;DR: In this article, the authors synthesize the information presented, according to case characteristics with respect to design, costs, environmental effectiveness, and other outcomes, and conclude that user-financed PES programs were better targeted, more closely tailored to local conditions and needs, had better monitoring and a greater willingness to enforce conditionality, and had far fewer confounding side objectives than government-funded programs.
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An institutional analysis of payments for environmental services
TL;DR: In this article, the characteristics and functioning of PES are analyzed from an institutional perspective, and the distinction between payments as incentives and as fair compensations is emphasized, while it is shown that while payments may strengthen community relations and simplify action for environmental care, they may also introduce a purely instrumental logic and in some cases worsen the environmental status by crowding out environmental virtues.
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Realising Redd+: National strategy and policy options
Arild Angelsen,Maria Brockhaus,Markku Kanninen,Erin O. Sills,William D. Sunderlin,S. Wertz-Kanounnikoff +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a performance-based payment for environmental services (PES) based on secure tenure, solid carbon data, and transparent governance for forest owners and users.
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Payments for environmental services: some nuts and bolts
TL;DR: Payments for environmental services (PES) are part of a new and more direct conservation paradigm, explicitly recognizing the need to bridge the interests of landowners and outsiders as discussed by the authors, but many field practitioners and prospective service buyers and sellers remain skeptical about the concept.
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Can Payments for Environmental Services Help Reduce Poverty? An Exploration of the Issues and the Evidence to Date from Latin America
TL;DR: In this paper, the main ways in which Payments for Environmental Services (PES) might affect poverty are examined, and the extent of the impact depends on how many PES participants are in fact poor, on the poors ability to participate and on the amounts paid.
Silver bullet or fools' gold? A global review of markets for forest environmental services and their impact on the poor.
N. Landell-Mills,Ina Porras +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors define markets as regular gatherings of people for the purpose of buying and selling goods or services, distinguished from public payments to private landowners for ecosystem services, or private deals between a few buyers and sellers.
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Selling Forest Environmental Services : Market-Based Mechanisms for Conservation and Development
TL;DR: In this article, market-based mechanisms for forest conservation and development and development are discussed, as well as the benefits of using these mechanisms in the context of water management and watershed preservation.
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The effect of land-use changes on the hydrological behaviour of histic andosols in south Ecuador
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated three methods, i.e. inverted auger hole, the tension infiltrometer and the constant-head permeameter method, to investigate the water retention in the south Ecuadorian Andean mountain belt between 3500 and 4500 m altitude.