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Do Payments for Environmental Services Affect Forest Cover?: A Farm-Level Evaluation from Costa Rica
Rodrigo Arriagada,Paul J. Ferraro,Erin O. Sills,Subhrendu K. Pattanayak,Silvia Cordero-Sancho +4 more
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In this paper, the impact of PES on forest cover in a region known for exemplary implementation of one of the best-known and longest-lived PES programs is estimated.Abstract:
Payments for environmental services (PES) are popular despite little empirical evidence of their effectiveness. We estimate the impact of PES on forest cover in a region known for exemplary implementation of one of the best-known and longest-lived PES programs. Our evaluation design combines sampling that incorporates prematching, data from remote sensing and household surveys, and empirical methods that include partial identification with weak assumptions, difference-in-differences matching estimators, and tests of sensitivity to unobservable heterogeneity. PES in our study site increased participating farm forest cover by about 11% to 17% of the mean area under PES contract over eight years. (JEL Q57, Q58)read more
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Natural capital and ecosystem services informing decisions: From promise to practice
Anne D. Guerry,Anne D. Guerry,Stephen Polasky,Jane Lubchenco,Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer,Gretchen C. Daily,Gretchen C. Daily,Robert J. Griffin,Mary Ruckelshaus,Mary Ruckelshaus,Ian J. Bateman,Anantha Kumar Duraiappah,Thomas Elmqvist,Marcus W. Feldman,Carl Folke,Carl Folke,Jonathan M. Hoekstra,Peter Kareiva,Bonnie L. Keeler,Shuzhuo Li,Emily McKenzie,Zhiyun Ouyang,Belinda Reyers,Taylor H. Ricketts,Johan Rockström,Heather Tallis,Bhaskar Vira +26 more
TL;DR: Why ecosystem service information has yet to fundamentally change decision-making is explored and a path forward is suggested that emphasizes developing solid evidence linking decisions to impacts on natural capital and ecosystem services, and then to human well-being.
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Trade-offs between multifunctionality and profit in tropical smallholder landscapes
Ingo Grass,Ingo Grass,Christoph Kubitza,Christoph Kubitza,Vijesh V. Krishna,Marife D. Corre,Oliver Mußhoff,Peter Pütz,Jochen Drescher,Katja Rembold,Katja Rembold,Eka Sulpin Ariyanti,Andrew D. Barnes,Nicole Brinkmann,Ulrich Brose,Bernhard Brümmer,Damayanti Buchori,Rolf Daniel,Kevin Darras,Heiko Faust,Lutz Fehrmann,Jonas Hein,Nina Hennings,Purnama Hidayat,Dirk Hölscher,Malte Jochum,Malte Jochum,Alexander Knohl,Martyna M. Kotowska,Valentyna Krashevska,Holger Kreft,Christoph Leuschner,Neil Jun S. Lobite,Rawati Panjaitan,Andrea Polle,Anton M. Potapov,Anton M. Potapov,Edwine Setia Purnama,Matin Qaim,Alexander Röll,Stefan Scheu,Dominik Schneider,Aiyen Tjoa,Teja Tscharntke,Edzo Veldkamp,Meike Wollni +45 more
TL;DR: Landscape compositions that can mitigate trade-offs under optimal land-use allocation but also show that intensive monocultures always lead to higher profits are identified, suggesting that targeted landscape planning is needed to increase land- use efficiency while ensuring socio-ecological sustainability.
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Effectiveness and synergies of policy instruments for land use governance in tropical regions
Eric F. Lambin,Eric F. Lambin,Patrick Meyfroidt,Ximena Rueda,Ximena Rueda,Allen Blackman,Jan Börner,Paolo Omar Cerutti,Thomas Dietsch,Laura Jungmann,Pénélope Lamarque,Jane Lister,Nathalie F. Walker,Sven Wunder +13 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a typology of potential interactions between public and private land use policy instruments that regulate land use and explore interactions between the new demand-led interventions and formal regulatory public policies.
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The effectiveness of payments for environmental services
Jan Börner,Kathy Baylis,Esteve Corbera,Driss Ezzine-de-Blas,Jordi Honey-Rosés,U. Martin Persson,Sven Wunder +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors adopt a theory-based approach to synthesize research on the effectiveness of payments for environmental services in achieving environmental objectives and socio-economic co-benefits in varying contexts.
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Evaluation of biodiversity policy instruments: what works and what doesn't?
TL;DR: Conservation Evaluation 2.0 as mentioned in this paper seeks to measure how programme impacts vary by socio-political and bio-physical context, to track economic and environmental impacts jointly, and to use theories of change to characterize causal mechanisms that can guide the collection of data and the interpretation of results.
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