Examining equity: a multidimensional framework for assessing equity in payments for ecosystem services
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In this paper, the authors present a systematic framework for the analysis of equity that can be used to examine how local equity is affected as the global value of ecosystem services changes, and how these dimensions are shaped by the scale and target group of concern, the framing of goals with respect to equity and how the decisions about the content, target and aims of equity are taken.About:
This article is published in Environmental Science & Policy.The article was published on 2013-11-01 and is currently open access. It has received 418 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Equity capital markets & Equity risk.read more
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Notions of Justice in Payments for Ecosystem Services:Insights from China’s Sloping Land Conversion Program in Yunnan Province
TL;DR: This paper examined the outcomes of the SLCP by way of a case study from the Yangliu watershed in Yunnan province and focused on the notions of justice embedded in state policy and held by villagers and local state officials in order to understand the observed outcomes in terms of people's participation in the implementation of the sLCP, land use changes and livelihood effects.
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Messiness of forest governance: How technical approaches suppress politics in REDD+ and conservation projects
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the failure to incorporate political notions of justice into conservation projects such as REDD+ results in "messiness" within governance systems, which is a symptom of injustice and illegitimacy.
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Roots of inequity: How the implementation of REDD+ reinforces past injustices
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the benefit distribution policy and practice of a prominent REDD+ project in Kenya with the aim of understanding the extent to which it addresses equity, and reveal that while the project design was attentive to equity concerns in distributing benefits among the project implementer, landowners and the wider population of small-scale farmers and pastoralists in the area, in practice, the initial flow of benefits were concentrated in the hands of a few.
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Unpacking equity for protected area conservation
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a framework for advancing equity in the context of protected area conservation that was developed through a process of expert workshops and consultation and then validated at three sites in East Africa.
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Towards an indicator system to assess equitable management in protected areas
Noelia Zafra-Calvo,Noelia Zafra-Calvo,Unai Pascual,Unai Pascual,Unai Pascual,Dan Brockington,Brendan Coolsaet,Jose A. Cortes-Vazquez,Nicole Gross-Camp,Ignacio Palomo,Ignacio Palomo,Neil D. Burgess,Neil D. Burgess +12 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a minimum set of ten indicators for assessing and monitoring the three dimensions of social equity in protected areas: recognition, procedure and distribution, which were used by practitioners to mainstream social equity indicators in PAs assessments at site level and to report to the CBD on the ‘equitably managed’ element of AT11.
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